Posts Tagged ‘black and white’
Coco, Bond, and the Crystal Coast
Coco, Bond, and the Crystal Coast Step back to a time when life moved slower, automobiles were still novel, fashion was elegant, and love lingered in the air. A thousand and one things cascaded through our minds as we prepared our styled newlywed photo shoot with Kaylee and Kent at the Ocean Club in Indian…
Read MoreDon’t take my Kodachrome away
“I got a Nikon camera I love to take photographs So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.” So sang Paul Simon the summer of 1973. Truth be told, I prefer shooting in black-and-white but that’s a story for another day. Though invented decades earlier, color photographs didn’t become main stream until the 1960s. A few…
Read More1950s Hong Kong Street Photography
I recently came across a book filled with some of the most amazing images I’ve ever seen of 1950s Hong Kong street photography. Called A Hong Kong Memoir, these photographs were captured by a teenager, Ho Fan, who arrived in Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1949. Armed with a simple Rolleiflex camera, he managed to…
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