What is it in the bones of everyday photographs, that give them the power to tell a forgotten story from another time and place with such clarity and imagination? And why, in the imagined visual telling of the story, do those photographs elevate the people and their tales of ordinary life, to an almost mythic status?…
Beyond the incredible innovations and creative possibilities of Polaroid cameras and their wonderful instant film, my most nostalgic photographic memory is of the Old-Fashioned Photo Booth. Selfies before Selfies were cool. A Memoir in a Can. Four for a Dollar. Extra Charge for Color. Here’s a few sets of old friends in faraway times, stashed in…
Looking through our family’s photographic archive and trying to select images for my wife’s memorial service, I was struck by the power photography has over the way our brains process old memories fading with the passage of time. Small moments from years earlier shine with an intensity that brings forth a flood of contradictory emotional connections…
Debra Shirley passed into the next life on September 29th, 2018. She was the foundation of our family and my wife, partner, lover and friend for twenty-eight years. She was a person of unusual sensitivity and exceptional character; fiercely intelligent, an accomplished actor, poet and creative artist, and a very caring and giving soul with an…
This dialogue was recorded on a cross-country tour a few of years ago, on the final day of our journey as we cruised through Yellowstone National Park. We spent most of our two days in the park replacing a tire after a dramatic high-speed blowout on the highway. The park was insanely crowded with traffic and…