Tom Farrington, Photographer

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About Usage Rights

All photographs and text are the property of Tom Farrington or Klaus Bythiner and are protected under United States and international copyright laws. All rights are reserved and the images and/or text may not be reproduced, stored, manipulated, and/or digitized without the written permission of the photographer, Tom Farrington or the photographer's agent (Tom Farrington, representing Klaus Bythiner). You may contact Tom regarding picture and text usage at the email address below.

If you have any questions or comments about the photographs on this site or wish to get information about purchasing prints or usage rights, please feel free to email me at tomkat@webcom.com.

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About the Galleries

Rock 'n' Roll

These photographs are a small cross section of the work that I did in LA and elsewhere, during the 80's and 90's. I worked as a photographer/correspondent for a number of major international and domestic music magazines and record companies, was an L.A photographer for SIPA Press and also photo editor for RIP magazine.

Vintage Racing

I have been interested in auto racing since my high school days and have been fortunate enough to be a regular contributor to several vintage racing magazines. Most of these photographs were taken at vintage races in California and include images taken at Riverside, Laguna Seca, Palm Springs and Willow Springs. I've used the original images as starting points for digital manipulations, using several of the better software packages including: Adobe Photoshop 4.0, Aldus Gallery Effects 1 & 2, Xaos tools and KPT 3.0 and a Mac 7100 and 9600.

The Racing Photography of Klaus Bythiner

I met Klaus at a vintage race at Palm Springs c.1986, where a common interest in racing photography and vintage race cars brought us together. Klaus has been kind enough to let me be his "rep" and printer for the last few years and its been fascinating for me to have the opportunity to print from his original negatives from the 50's and 60's.Klaus was a stringer for several years during the late 50's and early 60's, covering the European racing scene for US racing magazines. The photos on this page represent a cross section of his European work, primarily from the 1959 and 1960 racing seasons. His work is on permanent display at the Hockenheim Ring Museum and in the holdings of a number of collectors of autoracing memorabilia. Please check the For Sale page for descriptions and more information about purchasing archival prints from his original negatives.

The Scarab Gallery

Lance Reventlow's self-financed and home-grown Scarabs shone briefly and brightly on the US racing scene during the late 50's and early 60's. Taking on all comers, the early Scarabs, driven mainly by Reventlow, Chuck Daigh and Bruce Kessler quickly dominated the big-bore sports car class, regularly beating Ferrari, Maserati and the best of the US challengers. Reventlow then decided to challenge the Europeans for the World Championship on their home turf. His reach exceeded his grasp as his underdeveloped and hastily completed F1 car proved uncompetitive in the few races in which it was entered. The complete Scarab story is told in Scarab--Race Log of the All-American Specials, Motorbooks International, 1991 by Preston Lerner.

Klaus Bythiner was fortunate to have been able to document several of the Scarab's races and this gallery includes photographs of several unique and previously unpublished moments in Scarab history. Mr. Lerner has said that the photograph of the three Scarabs in the pits at Riverside is the only photo that he has ever seen that included all three of the sports cars. The photograph of the F1 Scarab losing a wheel at Zandvoort is also a unique photograph of an previously unpublished incident. Please see The Racing Photography of Klaus Bythiner for more information.

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