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Delta’s Downhill Spiral
What more do you need to know about DELTA Airlines than the latest email to someone who is currently a Platinum flyer with them… i wonder if C E Woolman, the founder of “Delta Air Services” (and at...
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Trying out the Samsung NX1 Camera.. a new way to see
Trying out the new Samsung NX1 “mirrorless” reflex camera low light in a ships hold and I have always found photographing fishermen with a moustache is the best way to determine how sharp a lens...
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The tumult surrounding the World Press Photo awards for the last couple of weeks has been quite earth-shaking. An Italian photographer, who had been awarded for “Contemporary Issues” was, finally,...
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Selma Redux
This weekend was the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus bridge, where demonstrators walked from Selma to Montgomery in those days which seem so far away, yet so near....
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Another Year
Birthdays are of course given to relative levels of celebration. Nothing is cooler than being 5 or 6.. being able to blow out the candles in one big breath, all your kindergarten pals gathered around...
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The Other September 11
Then there is the ‘other’ September 11 — the coup d’etat in Chile in 1973 when the Chilean military (backed in no small regard by Nixon & Kissinger) ousted President Salvador Allende. I was on the...
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A Playboy Bunny?
Fifty years ago (holy crap… please don’t quote me.. I mean… this is what I heard happened.. I wasn’t really there was I?) my brother Tom graduated from Williams College (Class of ’65)… I had just...
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A Face In the Crowd
Just about a year ago, we got a call at Contact Press Images from a caller in Illinois. He’d seen a picture online, and was trying to find out more about it, and get a copy of it. Per usual, the...
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Katrina, Ten Years On…
Ten years ago this week, I hopped a plane to Houston, rented a car, and headed north to the Louisiana line. Even though it was already 5 months since the calamity of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,...
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We’re Just Sayin
Forty years ago this week, I was the happy recipient of what I like to call “the magic phone call.” It was an era where the publication of magazines was thriving, and part of what those magazines...
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So Long, Champ
There are as many Ali stories as there are people, especially photographers, who ever met him. I covered a couple of Ali fights from the nosebleed sections, but it was never so much the fight itself as...
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D-Day+ 72
The trip began as a diversion from the post-election blues in Paris, 1974. The French had just elected a new President. I’d been lucky enough to be his personal photographer (if you have a choice...
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Forty Five Years On…
I sometimes wonder if our parents thought about time, and the passage of time, in the way we do. Though I can’t recall any conversations with my folks about it, I suspect they were more concerned with...
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Just 8 Years Ago….
It was 8 years ago this week that i received a phone call from Katie Ellsworth, then the Washington photo editor of TIME Magazine. I had worked for TIME over five decades, covering politics,...
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We’re Just Sayin
Forty years ago this week, I was the happy recipient of what I like to call “the magic phone call.” It was an era where the publication of magazines was thriving, and part of what those magazines...
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So Long, Champ
There are as many Ali stories as there are people, especially photographers, who ever met him. I covered a couple of Ali fights from the nosebleed sections, but it was never so much the fight itself as...
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D-Day+ 72
The trip began as a diversion from the post-election blues in Paris, 1974. The French had just elected a new President. I’d been lucky enough to be his personal photographer (if you have a choice...
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Forty Five Years On…
I sometimes wonder if our parents thought about time, and the passage of time, in the way we do. Though I can’t recall any conversations with my folks about it, I suspect they were more concerned with...
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Just 8 Years Ago….
It was 8 years ago this week that i received a phone call from Katie Ellsworth, then the Washington photo editor of TIME Magazine. I had worked for TIME over five decades, covering politics,...
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Half a Life Ago….
I guess when you have been doing something for nigh on’ fifty years, there aren’t many weeks that go by without some kind of memory, some anniversary which hops out from the cloudy mess of “today,”...
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