Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

A Guy Named Guy

This story starts in 1973 at Ansel Adams’ Yosemite Workshop.   Here is a photograph, recently rediscovered, I self-timed in one of the cabins where Guy was staying.  He is reclined in the foreground, and I appear in the mirror.   … Continue reading

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Excusado Update

As a followup to the previous discussion of Excusado …

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Excusado (Guerilla Gallery Series)

The above image is a “Guerilla Gallery” piece. I sometimes make reference or temporary prints of my own and others’ images for a variety of working purposes. For prints and their related notes that I want to preserve, I may … Continue reading

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Found on My Westminster Avenue Darkroom Doorstep (1977)

  And here are a couple of my circa 1977 photographs of Laura, the artist/friend who captured and annotated the image above:

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After Doisneau: Ivi & Marina (2011)

Bumped into this low-res version (where is my original?) I made of daughter Ivi and friend Marina dancing at Max Square in 2011. Seeing it again immediately reminded me of legendary Robert Doisneau’s 1950 photograph, below: And for more of … Continue reading

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Dark Night: Bill’s Take

Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking, clearly demonstrating a significant difference in our personalities(!):

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Dark Night: Bill’s Take

Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking (also here): For more on this Bill guy, see this page on HHR.

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Judy Dater, 1973 (Polaroid)

This image is based on a Polaroid print that I re-discovered this week. This Polaroid was originally made with my old 4×5 view camera at the same time, forty-six years ago, as this 35mm negative I found and scanned in … Continue reading

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Robert Frank, R.I.P.

Not many photographers’ work inspired and moved me the way Robert Frank’s did … And here we have some comments from a number of other photographers about Robert Frank’s influence. Also read this piece by The New Yorker‘s Amanda Petrusich.

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Jim Friedman Survivors

Today, while rummaging through boxes in my workspace that sit on about sixteen linear feet of shelves, stacked seven feet high, I discovered two forty-year-long-lost prints that Jim Friedman sent me back in the early 70s.  Here is a quick … Continue reading

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