Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel, Genesis

Peter Gabriel from the concept tour 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The original image was an Ektachrome transparency moved into the digital world using an Imacon/Hasselbald scanner.

Of late I have been using NIK software and Photoshop quite a bit and this image was re-processed with a new workflow - those who follow my blog know I am huge fan of re-working images in this manner - always something new to learn.

'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' was a concept album (yes album - round disk with grooves) circa 1976 followed by a tour of the same name...

Christopher Makos

At some point in or about 1972 I met Christopher Makos - not sure why or how we connected but surely it must have been something involved with music. Not long after meeting Chris we did a photo session at my studio in New York. Shortly after that session I lost touch with Christopher and had not thought about him or these images until finding this print in my archives. The image above is one of two that remain from that session.

Turns out he went on to have a career in Photojournalism and apprenticed with Man Ray. Christopher is credited with showing Andy Warhol how to use his first camera and also introduced Warhol to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Andy Warhol called Makos ' the most modern photographer in America'.

 Captured with a Hasselblad using an 80MM lens with Tri-x 400 speed film. The negative is lost and this was scanned into the digital world by JS Graphics in Chicago - thanks to Jon Scott.

Desbrosses Street Window

Desbrosses Street, New York City 

Back in the mid 90's I worked at a loft in Tribeca just south of Canal street near the Holland tunnel. I passed this window every day and the blinds and curtains were almost always in some state of dance. This particular day it seemed to say 'take a photograph' so I did....Two weeks later the blinds and curtains were gone.....they went to a more modern window treatment that no longer resonated for me...

That is me in the window.....but of course

Photographed with a Pentax 67, Tri-X film, scanned into the digital space using an Imacon/Hasselblad scanning device