Background
David John Lampson was born on July 22, 1940, in London, United Kingdom.
David John Lampson was born on July 22, 1940, in London, United Kingdom.
Currently, David is a director of photography for Empress Productions in Los Angeles. He directed about thirty documentary films for the Ford Motor Co. in Europe between 1971 and 1975.
The 1978 syndicated television series, "America Still," produced by Metro Productions in Los Angeles, was based on Lampson's photographs.
About his work, the photographer says: "I constantly juxtapose pen and camera. The good poems and the lasting images are lean and hostile to manipulation."
Lampson was influenced by the imagist poets, pictorialists, and the painter's Munch, Ensor, and Velasquez.
