Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Wow! Thanks, Dan. I needed an atta boy today. ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: Daniel J. Matyola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/2/2004 11:59:19 AM Subject: Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece Shel: This is actually one of my favorite pictures from Dario Bonazza's Vintage Spotmatic page. ( http://www.aohc.it/picte.htm ). Actually, I think I like the other photo of the same two people in a more animated pose even better. Good to see your standards were as high 35 years ago as today. Dan SB http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Hi! SB It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San SB Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, SB the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my SB Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two SB when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling SB around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we SB have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it SB brought back some fond memories. SB http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Good ol' days. Shel, you evoked some of my own memories of 20 or so years back. Of course they are about Moscow and my childhood or teenagehood but I thank you nonetheless. By the way, I was born 3 years after this shot was taken g... It is simple yet it is sweet... Thanks. Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Shel: This is actually one of my favorite pictures from Dario Bonazza's Vintage Spotmatic page. ( http://www.aohc.it/picte.htm ). Actually, I think I like the other photo of the same two people in a more animated pose even better. Good to see your standards were as high 35 years ago as today. Dan Shel Belinkoff wrote: SB It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small a partment in San SB Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, SB the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my SB Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two SB when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling SB around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we SB have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it SB brought back some fond memories. SB http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html
RE: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
One of the joys of photography (or any art, I suppose), is how one's opinion can change WRT an object as one examines and gets into it. That's one of the things I like about commenting on PAWs: it forces me to really get into a photo that I like, and I can sometimes end up with a different conclusion than I did at first blush. When I first viewed these two photos, I prefered Kathy and Her Neice (this one). Now I don't. As I got into the other, I came to like it more, because there was so much going on in that one between the two. Hard to compare, I guess, as this is a more formal portrait. What hit me on first viewing (other than how beautiful each are, and how obviously they love each other), is that Kathy looks like such a Hippy. The coat, the pigtails, the face unadorned by make-up. She's just so fresh and clean looking. I don't know if she was an actual Hippy or not, but I thought, Wow, she looks like one!. Unlike some of your other shots of the neighbourhood kids, this photo is set in a very particular time: it could only be late 60's, IMHO. Very Cool! Love the background: the railing framing her, the stairs, the columns and door; they're all wonderful details that put her in a place, and aesthetically they centre the two, draw us in. Fabulous. And (unfortunately, I had to delete the other replies to this, so I have no idea what anyone else said), did anyone else notice the door, ever so slightly ajar? What a great detail. And, beautifully OOF, too (the background, that is). Beautiful portrait, Shel. I like the other just a bit better, but not by much. They're both terrific. thanks, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:31:15 -0400 Beautiful!! Just a quick look, likely more comments to follow... cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:33:33 -0700 It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines _ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
RE: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Hi Frank ... I was waiting for your comments. Thanks for getting around to posting them. Yes, Kathy was a hippie, but then, so were many of us back in those days. The stories i could tell vbg Kathy and her old man, Dick, were very good friends, and these photos were taken in a different neighborhood than the kids. The kids were around my studio, the series with Kathy was taken across town ,near where I lived. The door is the door to Kathy's apartment. We spent a while outside making photos, and both Kathy and her niece were having a grand time, being silly, being loving, and kidding around for the camera. This was my first ever photo session, although, in those days, I didn't think of it like that. We were just having fun, kidding around. Anyway, those were the days when film was cheap, and I carried the Spottie everywhere, photographing everyone and everything. I'll tell you how much I used that Spottie: it was chrome, and in a little more than a year the brass was showing through in a couple of places. I loved that camera. When my studio was broken into, that was the camera that was taken. The Bronica, the Bolex movie cam, the Nikons, and lots of other expensive gear was not touched. And, rather than react with a sigh of relief, I was devastated. Shel and the Spotmatic were inseparable until that moment. Shel Belinkoff [Original Message] From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/26/2004 3:10:09 PM Subject: RE: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece One of the joys of photography (or any art, I suppose), is how one's opinion can change WRT an object as one examines and gets into it. That's one of the things I like about commenting on PAWs: it forces me to really get into a photo that I like, and I can sometimes end up with a different conclusion than I did at first blush. When I first viewed these two photos, I preferred Kathy and Her Neice (this one). Now I don't. As I got into the other, I came to like it more, because there was so much going on in that one between the two. Hard to compare, I guess, as this is a more formal portrait. What hit me on first viewing (other than how beautiful each are, and how obviously they love each other), is that Kathy looks like such a Hippy. The coat, the pigtails, the face unadorned by make-up. She's just so fresh and clean looking. I don't know if she was an actual Hippy or not, but I thought, Wow, she looks like one!. Unlike some of your other shots of the neighbourhood kids, this photo is set in a very particular time: it could only be late 60's, IMHO. Very Cool! Love the background: the railing framing her, the stairs, the columns and door; they're all wonderful details that put her in a place, and aesthetically they centre the two, draw us in. Fabulous. And (unfortunately, I had to delete the other replies to this, so I have no idea what anyone else said), did anyone else notice the door, ever so slightly ajar? What a great detail. And, beautifully OOF, too (the background, that is). Beautiful portrait, Shel. I like the other just a bit better, but not by much. They're both terrific. thanks, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Shel, That's a perfect picture for my Spottie vintage pictures gallery! The taste of the times is there, as Kathy couldn't be more 68 than that. Stored it away for that project, if you agree. Dario Bonazza (so maybe it's time for a reminder) - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:33 AM Subject: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Really captures a lost time. Kathy looks like she is getting ready for Woodstock and her niece exudes a kind of confidence that you dont see often in kids anymore, like we've lost a kind of optimism in the future. Must be the internet. Shel Belinkoff wrote: It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
That's a very nice portrait Shel, very nice. Shel Belinkoff wrote: It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff
Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Kathy's niece was great fun to have around. Of course, she and Kathy got along great - see the next pic of them - as Kathy was just a big kid herself, very guileless, open, and accepting. Shel Belinkoff [Original Message] From: Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/20/2004 8:42:11 AM Subject: Re: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece Really captures a lost time. Kathy looks like she is getting ready for Woodstock and her niece exudes a kind of confidence that you dont see often in kids anymore, like we've lost a kind of optimism in the future. Must be the internet. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html
RE: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece
Beautiful!! Just a quick look, likely more comments to follow... cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW - Kathy and Her Niece Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:33:33 -0700 It was the summer of 1968, and I was living in a small apartment in San Francisco. Across the panhandle, on Cole Street , lived Dick and Kathy, the Haight-Ashbury's most middle class couple. I'd just gotten my Spotmatic ... my very first real camera. I'd had it for but a week or two when Kathy's niece arrived for a visit. They spent a few hours fooling around (you may see more of their hi jinks later) for the camera. What we have here is just a little family snap. I hope you like it. Working on it brought back some fond memories. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/paw/kathy_and_niece.html Shel Belinkoff _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
