Tim Page (photographer)
Tim Page (born 25 May 1944 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent) is an English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.
Biography
Page left England in 1962 making his way overland driving through Europe, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Without money in Laos, he found work as an agricultural advisor for USAID. He began work as a press photographer in Laos stringing for UPI and AFP, having taught himself photography. His exclusive photographs of an attempted coup d'état in Laos in 1965 for UPI got him a staff position in the Saigon bureau of the news agency. He is celebrated for his work as a freelance accredited press photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia during the 1960s, also finding time to cover the Six-Day War in the Middle East in 1967. Due to a near-death experience in the early 60s, he came to view his life as 'free time'. This led him to take photographs in dangerous situations where other journalists would not venture. Similarly, Page was captivated by the excitement and glamour of warfare, which helped contribute to the style of photographs he is acclaimed for. Page's personality and lifestyle in Vietnam have been portrayed by others. Page himself does not shy away from the drug culture he was involved in during his time in Vietnam, devoting a large amount of his book Page after Page to it. In Dispatches, Michael Herr wrote of Page as the most 'extravagant' of the 'wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam', due in most respects to the amount of drugs that he enjoyed taking. His unusual personality was part of the inspiration for the character of the journalist played by Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now.
Tim Page
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Tim Page (actor)
Tim Page (born 1947) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. After emigrating to Australia in 1973 where he was cast as Henrik Eggerman in Stephen Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music' but he later became best known for playing Dr Graham Steele in the Australian television series The Young Doctors throughout its entire run from 1976 to 1982. By the time of the final episode his character had risen from lowly intern to hospital superintendent. He played Baron Tusenbach in Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' for the QTC and has continued his association with Sondheim musicals having played Pirelli in 'Sweeney Todd' for the MTC, Zangara in 'Assassins' and Narrator/Mysterious Man in 'Into The Woods'. Most recently he played Andre in 'The Phantom of the Opera', Warbucks in 'Annie' and Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol'.
Theatre and music
In the late 1980s he appeared in a number of musicals in London's West End. He was in the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Aspects of Love' at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1989-90. He was also in 'Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story' at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 1991. He recorded with the BBC Radio Orchestra and had seasons at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company and at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. in 2014, he appeared in the musical Annie.
Tim Page (music critic)
Tim Page (born October 11, 1954 in San Diego, California) is a writer, editor, music critic, producer and professor. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, the editor and biographer of the American author Dawn Powell and the chronicler of his own experiences growing up with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome.
Career
Page grew up in Storrs, Connecticut, where his father, Ellis Batten Page, was a professor of education at the University of Connecticut. In 1967, he was the subject of a short documentary, A Day With Timmy Page, that chronicled his early interest in filmmaking.
Page moved to New York in 1975, attended the Mannes College The New School for Music for two years, and then transferred to Columbia University. By the time of his graduation in 1979, Page was writing for the arts magazine Soho News and other publications and hosting a contemporary music program on the Columbia radio station, WKCR. In 1981, he began an 11-year association with WNYC-FM, where he presented an afternoon program that broadcast interviews with composers and musicians, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. An interview with Glenn Gould, comparing the pianist's two versions of Bach's Goldberg Variations, was released as part of a three-CD set entitled A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981 in 2002. In 1982, Page joined The New York Times, where he was a music writer and culture reporter until 1987, and he became chief music critic of Newsday in 1987.
