Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

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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JF as Jean Cocteau (After the 1949 portrait by Philippe Halsman)

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James, During the Pandemic

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A Self-Portrait With Bill’s Harlequin Cello Photograph

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Mr. F. Appears in Print (1978)

A recent rediscovery of a 1978 literary & art journal in which my photograph of the young Mr. Friedman — long before he became an internationally-acclaimed photographer, editor and educator — was published as the lead image in a multi-page … Continue reading

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