Richard's Notes

American Cities Pre-1950 Fantastic collection of images from 1864-1950.

Read Full Post »

Smith Rocks, Oregon. Pete Pollard (front) and me walking along the Crooked River at Smith Rocks toward Asterisk Pass. We went over the pass and hiked back north on the other side to the base of Monkey Face where we climbed a nice route called West Face Variation on Monkey Face. This picture was taken [...]

Read Full Post »

Reflections of Paris The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself “Yvon,” wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city’s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become [...]

Read Full Post »

September, 1972. My late father took this picture of my mother and me at Crater Lake. I had just moved to Eugene, Oregon to begin my second year of college at the University of Oregon and my folks came up from California to see how I was doing. I was 20 years old here, my [...]

Read Full Post »

My parents, Walter and Frances, sometime between 1948 and 1951, before I was born. This is my submission to the fantastic weblog: My Parents Were Awesome. My parents, Walter and Frances either just before I was born or just after (1951 plus or minus a few). This is my runner up submission.

Read Full Post »

My Parents Were Awesome Fantastic collection of images of people’s parents, sent in by kids. What a great collection. I’m gonna get on it and find a great one of my folks. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

Read Full Post »

The Denver Post Captured Photoblog: Images of World War II Normandy Beach Invasion. Incredible collection of historic images.

Read Full Post »

NY TimesReaders’ Moon Memories. Readers submit photos taken in 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission happened. The images and stories are fantastic. Recommended reading. You can submit yours here.

Read Full Post »

Lens Culture has a wonderful slide show of old Polish glass negatives. These are portraits of various people who lived in Debica Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. The images are haunting: they are so well done that they come alive yet the people are long gone. Each person has a story yet in this [...]

Read Full Post »

New York City, 1952. Walter Richard Wanderman, Richard Samuel Wanderman. My father is about thirty seven here, I’m six months. My father died in 2000, just before the tech bubble burst, George W. Bush stole the White House, and 9/11 happened. He was 84. Had he not died in 2000 any one of these events [...]

Read Full Post »

New York, NY, 1952. My mother is 37, I’m 1. I was a premature, breech birth and when this was taken I’d just finished with a bout of meningitis. Six months later I got polio. My poor mother, no wonder she decided not to have any more kids.

Read Full Post »

Coney Island, New York, around 1943. This was the shot my mother sent to all of her various boyfriends serving overseas during World War II. She didn’t know my father yet so he never got one of these.

Read Full Post »

This picture was taken in New York. L-R: Ben Diliatsky, Gladys Dick, Rose Dick, Sadie (Dick) Diliatsky. All of these people were alive when I was 16 and I met them. They’re all gone now. The women in this picture are three of my grandfather’s four sisters (my mother’s aunts) and all three are to [...]

Read Full Post »

This picture, taken at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York in 1918, has much of my mother’s family in it. My mother is the smallest child on the right. Her maiden name is Dick. She is 90 now. The old man with the beard is David Dick, my great grandfather and the husband of [...]

Read Full Post »

L-R: Frances (my mother), the actress Ingrid Bergman, unknown person, and Peg (my mother’s best friend), in New York in 1946. Peg and my mother were assistant editors for Movieland magazine. My 90 year old mother still has the pin she’s wearing here but the hat is no more (thank god, this one is worse [...]

Read Full Post »

L-R: Peg (my mother’s best friend), Frances (my mother), and the actress Dorothy Lamore at “21″ in New York in 1946. Peg and my mother were assistant editors for Movieland magazine. My 90 year old mother still has the pin she’s wearing here but the hat is no more (thank god). *I shot this with [...]

Read Full Post »