00051
February 19, 2024
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Contact sheet #51 contains photographs of Muscatine, Iowa, that I shot in October, 1972.
I was not happy to move to Muscatine in the summer of 1966. I had a good circle of friends in Winnebago, Illinois, from where I was moved when my father took a new job. In my old neighborhood in Winnebago, you could safely leave your bicycle outside for the ni...
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00050
February 11, 2024
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I shot the photos on contact sheet 50 for the Muscatine High School yearbook. I don’t believe any were published in the yearbook.
The 1974 Muscatine High School yearbook The Auroran has, as a featured student activity, yearbook itself. Following the headline, “Photography poses problem,” the entry for the yearbook said, “Encountering a problem wit...
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00049
February 11, 2024
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The photos on contact sheet 49 are from a variety of rolls of film shot in a variety of situations. Some are Muscatine photos from around 1971, some are Cornell College photos shot around 1976.
The photos from Muscatine include a set of photos of my cousin, Joe Hanson Jr. My aunt Cathy wanted photos of her son. My mother was extremely practical. S...
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00048
January 22, 2024
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The photographs on contact sheet #48 are from a variety of situations and a variety of times.
In the first of the photos, I am playing around with a new lens, a super-wide angle 18mm off-brand. I learned over time that this lens had a loose element that would sometimes render the photos blurry. It’s hard to get an out-of-focus photograph with a su...
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00047
December 08, 2023
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I first climbed the Mount Vernon water tower in September 1975. I had spent my summer on the paint crew at a Monsanto chemical plant in Muscatine. I wish that I could have brought my camera to that job. The plant had an intricate network of pipes. Each pipe had to be painted a different color to match what it contained. Water? Ammonia? Acetic acid?...
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