David Pauley

I'm a Brooklyn-based photographer and psychoanalyst. My journey with photography began in middle school in the late 1970s and revived in 2019 when I bought a used film camera and installed a darkroom in my basement. I'm committed to analog photography and am enthusiastic about the expressive power of old cameras, traditional processes and methods. You can see more of my work at www.leica1933.com.

David Pauley's Posts

14 April, 2026

Taking Photos in Museums: A Meditation

By David Pauley

I. Observing On a trip to the world’s busiest museum last fall, my husband and I were rudely jostled by a determined fellow museum-goer, a middle-aged Parisienne who shuffled fr...
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2 April, 2026

The Photographer as Subject: Ethan Hill

By David Pauley

One of the joys of living in a city like New York is its abundance of creative artists, many of whom also devote some portion of their time to teaching. So it is with the subjec...
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23 March, 2026

Farewell to a Friend – A One Shot Story

By David Pauley

A recent spring vacation in Europe with our daughter ended in sadness with the death, back home, of our beloved dog Milo at age 14. He had been gradually failing over the past m...
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14 March, 2026

Squares vs. Rectangles in Photography

By David Pauley

My photographic archive, viewed from a certain altitude, resembles nothing more than a collection of rectangles and squares. The rectangles come from my 35mm cameras, while the ...
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10 March, 2026

A Blizzard Stirs Memories

By David Pauley

One of my fondest early memories as a New Yorker was a blizzard in the mid-1990s that brought the metropolis to a halt. My future husband and I were out with friends at a play a...
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12 January, 2026

My Doubts about Film Photography

By David Pauley

There are moments when I ask myself why I bother shooting these old film cameras. Often that question comes when I’m exasperated or discouraged. Maybe the color on a batch...
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