In the 1960s, Jack Cakebread ran an auto repair shop in Oakland, Calif.
In his spare time, Mr. Cakebread was a Little League Baseball coach and freelance photographer who had studied under Ansel Adams. His stark black-and-white images of nature adorned calendars and were displayed in museums and galleries.
When a reporter asked why he didn’t chuck his day job at the garage, Mr. Cakebread said: “There are probably only 10 photographers in the world who do photography strictly as an art and make a living at it.”
Photography led to another art, however. A publisher asked Mr. Cakebread to take portraits of leading vintners for a book, “The Treasury of American Wines” by Nathan Chroman.
