65 years of photographing
The Rolleiflex camera: Love at first sight
Someone once asked me what my favorite camera was. That’s easy. The Rolleiflex medium format TLR. In fact I would call it the most beautiful camera I’ve ever seen. It was relatively easy to use, light weight, extraordinarily well-constructed, simple and had the best lenses…
65 years of photographing, current events
Coney Island Sideshow goes uptown!
Run don’t walk to “Sideshow” an exhibition of early Coney Island memorabilia starting May 2nd at The Ross Art Group’s Manhattan gallery. If I could, I would be there. Opening night will feature not only a cornucopia of early Coney Island exotica, but the added…
65 years of photographing
The ICP, Earth Day and me: Celebrating the beauty that surrounds us
Over the week-end a friend sent me a link to a blog featuring my work. Fans in a Flashbulb: Images from the collections of The International Center for Photography is a blog that shares photographs from the ICP’s permanent collection with text by members of…
65 years of photographing, the creative process
Long before there was Photoshop… photomontages!
Last week I was asked to speak at the Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts, a great little gem of an art school overlooking the ocean in Beverly, MA. I was a special guest for the opening of an exhibition curated by Boston…
65 years of photographing
The Olympus Pen half-frame camera: Keeping it simple!
At my Aperture event recently a former student asked whether or not my new book contained any photographs taken with the Olympus Pen half frame camera I used during the mid-60′s. The answer is yes. It was a camera I loved using. Interestingly, the photo…
65 years of photographing
A monumental difference: More reflections on W. Eugene Smith
One morning last week I sat down at the breakfast table and Judith greeted me with: “Wait till you hear this!” She proceeded to read me the first sentence from a blog posting she’d just come across. The author Daniel Milnor a documentary photographer living…