al_kaplan1 Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Here are a few more vintage photos I found.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lee hamiel Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Nice Al Looks like you are replaying the home version of Forrest Gump! From hippie days to politician shots to down home & fishin' - Lot of fun Do you remember that much from the early days? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 More steps down memory lane! Thanks, Todd, for the great scans. The prints are all vintage prints from the 60's and 70's. The first shot is probably from the early 70's, standing in my front yard, by my then wife Stephanie. I think she took all of these except for the next one, the shot of me with Senator Claude Pepper, and that was probably clicked off with my camera by Barry University's public relations director Earl Bradshaw. The third shot was at a Coconut Grove art gallery where I was picking pix to hang in a group photography show in the late 60's. I can'tremember their names! The fourth photo was in Westport, CN, early 70's, with my good friend Jon Sinish, who is a great photographer and has an ad agency there. The woman is Shirley Rigby. I first met her when she was an editor at the old Miami News. She moved to New York to take an editorial job with Time Magazine. Does anybody know where she is these days? I lost touch with her years ago. The shot of me playing guitar dates to about 1965, as do the shots of me fishing in the Old New Bedford Resevoir in Massachusetes. All but the shot with Senator Pepper were likely shot with a red dial III-f. Pepper was shot with either an M2, M2-R, or an M4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee hamiel Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 By the way - in shot #4 you look like Howard Stern/Zappa in the green room before Howiewood Squares:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bennet Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 And monkey? You weren't snapping the monkey back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I've got some snaps my mother took of me when I was in high school and college. Let me try and find them... www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 Lee, I remember an unbelievable amount of trivia from the old days. The North Miami city staff are always consulting me about why so-and-so got a certain variance back in '79, or such. I've served on either the Planning Commission or Board of Adjustment about forever. Ask me what I had for lunch today? Did I EAT lunch today?...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bennet Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Oops. Looking closer at the first shot, I see him now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Brad - but are they vintage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Al-- I think that the medical term for your condition is NARCISSISM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 To give credit, on the back of photo four it indicates that it was taken by "Peter B. Tepper, Trumbull, Conn., June 1972." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 <I>Al-- I think that the medical term for your condition is NARCISSISM</I><P> Speaking of Narcissus, <a href= "http://www.utexas.edu/courses/larrymyth/images/ cadmus/M-Caravaggio-Narcissus.jpg">here he is</a>, looking at his reflection, by Caravaggio. Is the 3:53PM pic a modern day version? www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Sel-portraits, and portraits of one's self by others, are interesting to me. Currently at the San Francisco MOMA there is a major exhibit by a painter which consists only of self portraits from the early 1960's to the present. He is now disabled and has a special easel that lowers into the floor of his studio so he is always at eye level. Forgot his name. I'll check it out. I also have a rather large book titled "Camera I" which contains nothing but either self-portraits or those taken of the photographer by others. I'd like to see some of your self-portraits sometime. When I first joined Photo.net, I put up a question "Who Are You?" which was rather popular. I think it still exists somewhere. I like people, and I like to see them visually, and learn of their history. I guess that's why I'm interested in Al's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akochanowski Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Are Brad and I the only ones who think this is getting seriously demented? This is a public forum for crying out loud. Why don't the old boys who want to look at each other's baby pictures just use IM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambor Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Count me in as one who things this is pretty strange. I'm starting to believe that majority of Al's meticulously organized vintage negatives and fiber prints are shots of himself. Occassionally, Dylan stept into the frame and screwed up the shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alec1 Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 How about a moratorium on this stuff till '06? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 "Are Brad and I the only ones who think this is getting seriously demented?" nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 <i>'Occassionally, Dylan stept into the frame and screwed up the shot...'</i><p> lol, don't you just hate it when that happens ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredus Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I'm with some of the member here ... Al, most of the shots your're showing us are either self portrait or picture of you taken by other people. Would it be possible to see something else from the 60's and 70's .. ? I'm not saying these pictures are not good but I think I'm at a point where I'm fed up with them ... Fred ;Very PC today ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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