Posted in iPhone Photography, Old Photos, Photographers, Process on Sep 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Mastergram Instagram filters applied to historic photographs by the likes of Diane Arbus, Robert Capa, Alex Soth, Weegee, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more. Great experiment, I hope he keeps it up. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites, Places on Aug 1st, 2011 2 Comments »
American Cities Pre-1950 The Denver Post photo archive has put together a wonderful collection of old images of American Cities. Really makes one appreciate how fast we’ve constructed the United State (for good and for bad). [via Scott James]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Jun 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
I continue to track (via RSS) the site My Parents Were Awesome and just saw a great one: Dan and Francesca Fantastic shot. Love that car and her shoes. Wow.
Posted in Old Photos, People, Photo Sites on May 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
Rare photos of famous people Wow, what a fantastic collection. Amazing. Here’s a fun one of George Clooney. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Adventure, Old Photos, Photographers on Jan 13th, 2011 8 Comments »
Mid-1970′s, Yosemite Valley, California. This picture was taken by my then girlfriend and climbing partner Faye Nakamura. I’m not sure which climb we were on but it’s not a wall since I don’t have a haul line or aiders. I’m guessing its the East Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock, one of our favorite all day [...]
Posted in Animals, Old Photos, Places on Jan 12th, 2011 4 Comments »
July, 1969, Yosemite Park, California. I took this out our car window against my father’s advice. We went to Yosemite as a family each year until I went away to college; my parents continued to go for many years after. Those were amazing years in Yosemite and we even experienced the famous Yosemite Firefall where [...]
Posted in Old Photos, Places on Sep 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Grand Central: 1908 Shorpy has a fantastic image of the digging of the underground rail terminal in Grand Central. Note the above ground station coming down next door to the right. Check the image out full size.
Posted in Adventure, Old Photos, People, Places on Jun 19th, 2010 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Jun 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in My mother, Old Photos, People, Places on Jun 13th, 2010 9 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Oct 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
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.
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites on Oct 21st, 2009 11 Comments »
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]
Posted in Events, Old Photos, Places on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
The Denver Post Captured Photoblog: Images of World War II Normandy Beach Invasion. Incredible collection of historic images.
Posted in Events, Old Photos, People on Jul 16th, 2009 No Comments »
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.
Posted in Old Photos, People, Places on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Stories on Jun 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in My mother, Old Photos, People on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in My mother, Old Photos, People on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in Old Photos on Feb 1st, 2006 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jan 26th, 2006 No Comments »
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 [...]
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