Thirty years of still photography:

Nature
Promotional/Catalog
Museum Displays
Web Virtual Reality
Motion Picture Publicity

Biography:

Steve Slocomb’s photography career encompasses both still and motion picture work. This resume focuses solely on his still photography.

His first professional photography was of actors and models for their “composites” that they use to promote themselves. He then went on to do photography at Magic Mountain Theme Park of the various entertainers who performed there. His pictures were given to them as gifts. They included a variety of performers such as Phyllis Diller, Milton Berle, Count Basie, Jerry VanDyke, Frank Gorshin,  and Rich Little.
    In the early 1970’s with the noted designer Charles Eames he produced slide show imagery for multi-screen slide presentations for IBM, the National Science Foundation, and others. He was also employed doing large format photography for museum and interpretative displays on themes ranging from Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to ones on scientists like Nicholas Copernicus and Leonardo Fibonacci.  All the Eames studio images are now archived in the Library of Congress.        
    In the late 1970’s he branched out into doing a very specialized kind of photorealistic photography of architectural models for various architects and designers. They were used for client presentations. During this time he also produced some large format photography for special effects on the feature films Tron and House.
    Throughout the 1980s he engaged in the hobby of making complex slide presentations of various themes from Glacier Bay National Park, Venice Beach, holy week in Antigua Guatemala, and even the behind the scenes making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Captain Eo Disney theme park film. He is in the process of gradually transferring them onto DVDs, eventually even high definition Blu-Ray.
    In 1984 he was a photographer for the architects and designers of the Los Angeles Olympic games. He also produced publicity photography on six feature films including Disorganized Crime in his home town of Hamilton Montana. Off and on through the 1980s he provided imagery for several magazines and catalogs including the covers of Mother Earth News and USA Today.
      In the last 8 years he has utilized digital still photography on his numerous video productions through the use of complex three dimensional animation techniques. His photography continues on, now focusing on creating 360 degree virtual reality imagery for the internet and the capturing of nature photographs from the local wilderness area.