Writer

Writer, Los Angeles

Happy to say that these two images were juried into a portrait show, PERSONA, at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont which opens mid-September.

Driving to Carmel, Indiana today for the opening of my gallery show,  Music, iPhone and other Neighborhoods at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery. The show will move to Toledo om October 10 at the 20 North Gallery. This show will be images from my 40+ years avocation with photography.

Street Photographer, Street Fair, New York City

Gallery Open

Gallery, Mercer Street, NYC

This image is from the 'way back time machine', circa 1968, back when cameras used black and white and color film. For those who do not remember this phrase it comes from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show...They used the time machine to go back and alter historic moments....check out their Wikipedia page....

This photograph was made on Prince Street between Mercer and Greene Street. What we need is a new word for 'capture'...sorry so old school around here...

This image will be part of my gallery show opening on September 10th at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery in Carmel, Indiana. The show title is 'Music, iPhone and other Neighborhoods' and will have images from my 45 year addiction to the camera...From Indiana the show will move to the 20 North Gallery in Toledo, Ohio. This will be the first time many of these images will be printed and displayed...

Meet Thy God

One Eye Open.....

This image is from the 1995. I was driving back from the opening concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with my friend Liz Mahon and we were splitting the driving between major highway and back roads....This image wa made somewhere on a backroad in Ohio....

While the RRHOF was opening there was another event coming to closure - the OJ Simpson trial....I clearly remember being in a general store watching the verdict....

The words at the top of the structure say "To Meet Thy God".... Looking back this image seems rather ironic today. 

Captured with a Nikon F series camera, tri-x 400, lens unknown

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.

Roger McQuinn

'So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time
and learn how to play'............Roger McQuinn

Roger McQuinn, early 1970's, , co-founder of the musical group 'The Byrds'. One of my all time favorite albums, yes albums, was 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'. Sweetheart, released in 1968, gets credit for being the first country-rock record recorded by a major artist. Special guests on this record were Gram Parsons and Clarence White. Great listen if you have the opportunity.

PS: I know some of you are receiving this blog instead of the iPhone-antics blog. There seems to be an issue with Blogger where I can not separate the two blogs and only sends the 'hsandler.blogspot.com' daily blog.  For the time being you can go to iPhone-antics and subscribe via the 'Networked Blog' dialog box on the left. Will advise when I finally get this situation corrected.

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

Coney Island

Summer, Coney Island

Captured with a Nikon F3, Tri-X black and white film, scanned into the digital world by JS Scans, Chicago, Illinois.

Only in New York

New York, NY

Another Point and Shoot image, circa 199, back in the days of pay phones...

Can't help but wonder what the story is.