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dren, their parents and their grandparents. Faces of the rich and the poor, the idle and the workers. Faces with a trace of foreignness loverlaying the expressions of sorrow, happiness, satisfaction and reflection commop to men and women everywhere.
There are faces and moments frozen in history in scenes many will remember from the pages of the magazines. The first photograph of three presidents together—Harry Truman, Ike and JFK—at the funeral of Sam Rayburn. Lady Bird and Jacquelyn with poet Robert Frost on that icy morning of ^qnnedy’s innpuguration; A. smiting Eleanor Roosevelt in a Familiar por' trait. DeGaulIe oh the steps of the cathedral in London, paying homage and saying goodbye to his wartime compatriot, Winston Churchill.
The images take the viewer around the world and back through time.
Horatio With Camera
Scherschel, who lives with his wife Elizabeth, their two daughters, a giant chocolate poodle and various other four-legged friends, has a personal story that tells like Horatio Alger with camera. He didn’t study photography at a famous art institute or attend the prestigious seminars and workshops conducted by the recognized masters. Instead, he came through the proverbial school of hard knocks, learning by doing, teaching himself.
Joe Scherschel’s parents died when he was a boy and he went to live with his brother, chief photographer for the Milwaukee Journal newspaper.
“He kind of raised me. I followed him on jobs but as a kid, I never had any particular interest in photography. At 12 and 13 years old, I couldn’t imagine anything duller than being a photographer! I never got terribly warmed up about it until the kids at school started asking me questions—how you get a picture in the paper, how to be in the right place at the right time to get a good picture. They stirred my imagination.”
He started his career as a technician with a Kodak darkroom outfit #2, complete with about a thimble full of chemicals and a couple of plastic trays. His brother gave him his old negatives and Joe did contact sheets. Every now and then, big brother would loan the aspiring photographer a camera to take pictures at school. “I’d make 8x10s and sell them. That’s the way I earned my first $20 to buy an old broken down speed graphic. I just kept growing with it.” A better diver at that point than photographer— he took third place in the i Wisconsin State Diving i Championships—Joe was offered an athletic scholarship : to Princeton University but i by the time he graduated I from high school, he was j
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