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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