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February 18, 2023
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Black and white negatives from June and October 1971 and April 1972 ~
These photos are from my first years in 35mm photography. The composition in some of the older photos is boring and balanced. A few photographs show some insight. I was trying to learn but I wasn’t also yet learning how to learn. This collection of the photos on the single con...
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February 16, 2023
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May 1977, black and white, my first wedding ~
The photographs were taken by David Babcock.
A few months before the wedding my fiance, Janet, decided that she wasn’t going in to the ministry. She had decided that Christianity was too fundamentally sexist. She had been planning to go to seminary most of her life. The summers I had known her she...
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February 15, 2023
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August 1975 ~
I had bought five hits of blotter from a friend before returning to college for my sophomore year. I was editor of the yearbook so I had permission to arrive to Cornell early in order to photograph new student orientation and the move-in process. The acid had an uncertain provenance. I was told it might be on the weak side, but the v...
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February 08, 2023
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October 1977 ~
The Cornell College homecoming parade, celebrating Cornell’s 125th year.
It was an interesting parade because there were so few spectators. Look at the margins, at the side of the road. No one.
Funny that the purpose of this parade was moving people across a road, rather than entertaining people along the parade route.
The people...
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February 08, 2023
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June 1983, color negatives ~
In 1983 there were three photography stores in Iowa City: Henry Louis, The F Stop, and University Camera. Henry Louis sold Leica and Hasselblad to the physicians. The F Stop bumbled through selling consumer cameras and photographic supplies. And then there was University Camera.
U Camera sold consumer cameras and phot...
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