Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

WORK IN PROGRESS: Study for Friedman+Hathaway Election 2024 Variations Riff

This project melds November 2024 self-portraits by Jim Friedman with my recent grids of variations based on a portrait I made of Jim in 1973.

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Hal’s Take

Here, in a series of images, we compare my original of a diagonal sliver of light barely revealing my friend Lynne’s face with my friend Hal’s later concept image for a book cover: ! And be sure to catch some … Continue reading

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Riff on Diane Arbus

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JF / FaceTime

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Dennis’ Photo of Bill at his Huntington Beach Studio in the 1970s

Dennis Trombley, one of an old group of friends devoted to photography and art and high jinks, sends me this photograph from his archives as we remember Bill today, exactly three years since his passing. more on Bill and his … Continue reading

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Visiting Ken (c1971)

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JF x 3

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I Rest My Case

In a former life, in the 1960s and 1970s, when I served as an audit manager in the investigatory arm of the U.S. Congress, I developed a professional obsession with fact-checking and documentation.  This behavior was expected in my role, … Continue reading

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Revealing a Speculative JF on FaceTime

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Goebbels by Eisenstaedt (1933)

This is one of the photographs that I most remembered, and was terrified by, from early childhood, when I would pore over my grandmother’s volumes of books on the illustrated history of World War II. Both of her sons — … Continue reading

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