Time Travel

One of the more interesting photo blogs I ran across the other day is Richard Friedman's All I've Seen (which is accompanied by his regular blog, All I Know). A photographer and radio disc jockey living now in Oakland, CA, Friedman was born in the Bronx and has traveled around the world quite a bit over the past 42 years or so. Fortunately he's been photographing his city and country travels throughout and has been posting a photo a day for the past year and a half.

If you live in New York or San Francisco, Berkeley or Seattle or Stockholm or Hollywood, Florida, you may be interested in seeing a flash from the past of a familiar street corner or storefront from twenty or thirty years ago. And if you have fifteen minutes or so to browse, it is an interesting voyage around the world and back in half a century. (Above New York City October 1970)
—Lori Fredrickson
Assistant Editor

Comments

[rchrd]

Lori: Thanks for finding my photo blog among all the millions out there.

The internet has encouraged many of us non-professional photographers who have been taking pictures nearly all their lives to share our experiences and images with everyone who can find us.

It's also had the affect of making me think more seriously about photography, and I'm now gathering some portfolios together at http://rchrd.com/photo/home.html.

I've already had one show (at District Fine Arts in Washington D.C.) of my New York in the 60's images, and hope there will be more to come.

Thanks for the encouraging note.

[Michelle J.]

I somehow found Richard Freidman's photo blog page this afternoon while in my office. I am intrigued and appreciate the feelings that his photograph's arouse, especially those of Martinez, CA, my hometown as a child. There is just one problem-- I can't get myself back to work...how mundane it all seems when contrasted with a body of work that encapsulates life!