John Loengard is the only photographer to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography from Life magazine and he just so happens to be my roommate's step-grandfather. He is most famous for a picture of the Beatles in swimming pool but I like his western photos. Here are some links.
Yesterday I swung by the 45 RPM on east 71st. Specializing in indigo denim for over forty years, 45 RPM has collections that my friend Edge describes as four hundred dollar selvedge denim and three hundred dollar shirts inspired by contemporary Mongolian nomads or Japanese peasants.
The store's decor and merchandising remind me of the Rogues Gallery showroom with substantial nautical influences, including a bunch of Popeye the sailor dolls and a rowboat infused into a brick wall. Their walls were made of woods native to northern climates and had amazing detail including individually chiseled siding. Here is a photo I took in a mirror on the second floor. I like what they do.
Here are some exerts from their AW08 look book.
Here are some more portraits from my recent trip to Vermont taken with a 5o mm f1.8 and 17-55mm f2.8.
I spotted this guy giving an impromptu sermon in front of the United Methodist Church in Waterville Maine. He said that God was mad at America for electing Obama but that God loved my generation...few...
I wonder what he is listening to on his Sony tape Walkman?
I left my job in New York in the summer of 2011 and moved into a camper. Since then, I have driven 100,000 miles around the west, surfing and camping. During the summer of 2014, I set up a home base in the Columbia River Gorge. These are some of my stories and photos.
