Disneyland Dreamer

Robbins Barstow, Home-Movie Maven, Dies at 91

Robbins Barstow, a Connecticut man who, movie camera whirring, documented every aspect of his family’s life for decades, yielding a vast body of work that formed the cornerstone of the recent home-movie revival and has lately garnered a huge following online, died on Nov. 7 at his home in Hartford. He was 91 and previously lived in Wethersfield, Conn.

Mr. Barstow made more than a hundred films in the course of eight decades. In 2008, his best-known, “Disneyland Dream” (1956), a 30-minute account of a family vacation, was named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Read the entire story from The New York Times HERE.

You can find Disneyland Dream and an AMAZING mass of other films at archive.org

New Issue of Ahorn

© Claudine Doury, Famille de Silkhon, Kiziljar, KZ, 2003

And man, oh man, is it GREAT!
Click HERE to see it.

Six Reflections on the Photography of Robert Frank

“I have a lot in back of me – of what has happened in my life – and that’s a tremendous pull backward. And in front of me I love the sea.” - Robert Frank

Robert Frank
Sick of Goodby's, Mabou 1978
© Foto museum Winterthur/National Gallery. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Gelatin silver print
48.3x33cm

Click HERE to read some wonderful comments on Frank's photographs (such as my favorite, above) by Ed Ruscha, Lou Reed, Mary Ellen Mark and others.

Ed Templeton - The Second Pass

The Second Pass, by Ed Templeton. Published by Seems Books, 2010.

Here is a GREAT example of how an artist has combined photographic images together in a meaningful and intentional manner in the form of an artist's book. This should help those of your in Memory and The Photograph.

To read more about the book, click HERE