miles , I took photos of everything including people .
Forty years later my passion for this is still very high and I always look forward to my special photography time . When I started taking photos , I couldn ’ t find enough photography books mostly covering famous photographers and not the ‘ how-to ’ books . I found myself going to as many photography exhibits as I could find and then going out and shooting as many photos as I could . My enthusiasm encouraged Dick and we would both drive into some strange places like the slums of Paterson New Jersey to shoot some of the locals ! Perhaps , if I would have pursued this approach I would have had an incredible portfolio of urban portraits .
Man with Beret , Greenwich Village , NYC , circa 1970 Photo by Barry
Dick Logan , Thunder Mountain circa 1970 , Photo by Barry Epstein
Dick and I would also go to Thunder Mountain shooting , up to Grandma ’ s , to friends in New Palz and other locations usually with a car full of girls or they would meet us up there . Additionally , we made several animated , pixelated movies that used stop frames that depict people coming out of a house in a rowboat that looks like it is moving . This took us hours and hours of posing one frame at a time and we got so stoned doing it and directing it . The fun was endless and the movies came out really nice . Dick still has these and I hope that he can get them transformed into digital movies to upload on YouTube .
My girlfriend Joan at the time was a nurse and was very much into seeing shows in New York . She
Feeding Pigeons , Greenwich Village , NYC , circa 1970 , Photo by Barry
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