"Fallen Child," Athens County, Ohio, 1965 (6 cm x 6 cm negative film), pigment print, image size: 10 3/8" x 9 15/16" on cotton rag paper.
"Grandmother's Fishing Pond," Athens County, Ohio, 1965 (same camera, 6 cm x 6 cm negative film), pigment print, image size: 8 3/8" x 8 1/8" on 11" x 17" paper.
This is the camera (film size 120, 6 cm x 6 cm) I used to take both pictures above.
My father most likely purchased this camera new in the 1950s. I only used this camera for a couple of years and I still have it.
"I-70 Bridge Construction," Ridge Road on Braddock Mountain, Frederick Co., Maryland, 1965. Quad pigment print on museum rag paper, image size 10" x 19."
"My Neighbor with a Dead Groundhog," Frederick County, Maryland, 1967 (6 cm x 7 cm negative film). Pigment print, image size: 6 1/2" x 5" on cotton rag paper.
"Young Girl," Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam, 1969. Image size: 9 5/16" x 6 3/4" on 11" x 17" museum rag paper.
"School Building," Homestead, Dade County, Florida, 1970. Pigment print image size: 5 7/8" x 8 11/16" on 11" x 17" museum rag paper.
This is when I first started to process my own negatives and make my first photographic prints.
"Bean Pole," Homestead, Dade County, Florida, 1970. Pigment print image size 9" x 6 1/8" on 11" x 17" museum rag paper.
This is when I first started to process my own negatives and make my first photographic prints.
"Vietnamese Co-Workers with Flags," Quang Nam Province, Republic of South Viet Nam, 1969. Triptych pigment print on cotton rag paper.
"Onlookers," Bob Hope Show, Hill 327, Quang Nam Province, Republic of South Viet Nam, December, 1969. While I was capturing this scene
(after the Golddiggers, Connie Stevens and Les Brown And His Band of Renown), Neil Armstrong was speaking of his experience walking on the moon in July!
Pigment print, image size: 5 7/8" x 8 7/16" on 11" x 17" museum rag paper.
When I returned home to the US in 1970, I cut up ALL of my negative and most of my positive films (+/- twenty rolls?).
Images I had left were 3 1/2" x 5" black and white glossy prints my father hid from me and found ten years later.
"Rocket Launcher," loaded with high explosive incendiary (HEI) rockets, 1969. Image size: 7 13/16" x 7 3/4" on museum rag paper.
"Bomb Dispenser," cluster bomb unit (CBU), loaded with high explosive base ball size bomblets, 1969. Image size: 7 5/8" x 7 5/8" on museum rag paper.
"Bruce Taylor's Portrait" with gear, ready for the range, Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam, 1969. Image size: 8 5/16" x 6" on museum rag paper.
"Self Portrait" (on right) with best friend, Spokane, Washington, 1972.
Getting ready for a road trip to Fairbanks, Alaska and across the Queen's Highway to Maine in April and May. Pigment print.
Portrait of "Sandy," Atlanta, GA 1973. Not a good portrait, but he was a Navy veteran and my college roommate for several years. He hung his flag in both of our apartments.
He died early in life at age 50. Pigment print, image size 8 1/4" x 6 1/2" on 11" x 17" rag paper.
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