I’ve been digitizing negatives for over 15 years and collecting them for almost 40. I have never seen any of the original Kodak camera negatives, so when I recently looked...
In June 1952, my maternal grandparents embarked on a life-changing move Graz, Austria, from their home since WWII, to New York City. My grandmother, six months pregnant with my ...
I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy ...
Some years ago my late father handed me a cardboard box containing 100’s of his father’s negatives dating from the 1920’s onwards. The vast majority in bulk...
My father moved to Athens, Greece, in February 1951. He had just returned to USA from an overseas position in the Pacific. After about two weeks job-hunting in New York City, a...
It’s that time of the year. Joy felt Holiday celebrations are ramping up and resolutions are being planned to contribute to a brighter year ahead. Photographers make resolutio...
There’s plenty of routine and repetition in photography. The sequences we all run through; film shooters – loading the roll, the cocking of the wind on lever. Digita...
Recently, I had to go undergo some surgery which resulted in me taking a forced hiatus from photography and from posting on my own little blog, The Daily Lumenbox. As a reader o...