Category Archives: 2003

10/12/2003 – Milt Rogovin – photography

Milton and Anne Rogovin – June 2003

During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day of the exhibit, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ONES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN.

This proved to be the best photography, most engaging exhibit I have seen in years.

“A joint project of the NYHS, Sound Portraits Production (the Society’s collaborators on the 2001 exhibition Flophouse ), and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, this remarkable exhibition combines prime examples of 93-year-old Rogovin’s photographs of Buffalo over five decades (including recent work), with audio installations and artifacts. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film, The Forgotten Ones , directed by Harvey Wang (which won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival), and a new book, Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones (with Dave Isay, David Miller and Harvey Wang; published by Quantuck Lane Press in June, 2003).”

(from the New York Historical Society web site)

At the heart of the experience was a roomful of tryptichs, photos taken of the same family, if not always the same family members spanning three decades. Rogovin combined brief texts by one or more of those pictured and some included audio versions with the authors of the text speaking.

Here are a few images:

Eva and Daughter 1972, 1985, and 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o112420.html)

Grandparents and Baptism Boy 1974, 1985, 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz112421.html)

And an updated “quartet” extending the one above:

Here are a couple of other pictures gleaned from various web sites:

(from the Working People series)

There is a Milton Rogovin website.

Year in Pictures – July 16 thru July 24, 2003

Wednesday July 16, 2003

This large green bowl that Karen really liked proved not to be microwave-safe. It broke in my hands as I began to wash it after reheating the evening pot roast.

Thursday July 17, 2003

A detail from an arbor at the top of Franklin St at Putnam Ave.

The finishing touches are now being made at the Franklin St pocket park.

The maker of this steel sculptural fence turns out to be Murray Dewart (more below on him).

He was working on it when I walked by. He listened politely as I expressed the observation that the granite pillars are out of proportion to the entrance. Go back to the July 10 entry for a photo and my comments then.

Apparently this is all part of his design. We will see how it works out.

Jerusalem’s Gate by M. Dewart in the Forrest Hills Cemetery Sculpture Path: Murray Dewart

Gee, does this piece suggest a solution that might fit in at Franklin St.??

Friday July 18, 2003

Dinner Friday: When we went by the Miracle of Science down near MIT on Mass Ave, one of our regular spots, it was mysteriously full. So, off to visit an old haunt that we have not been in for five or six years. the papers recently spoke highly of a refreshed cuisine. We only found the dependable old one and the same crowd of locals in search of cheap serviceable food.

After dinner, we went to take a look at the Photography Atelier show (Photography Atelier) (opens new window) hung at Lesley University’s (Lesley University (opens new window) space in the former Sear’s Building in Porter Sq. (now known as the “Porter Exchange”. Even though I might be accused of nepotism, Karen both teaches the course and has work in the show, it is quite good. If you happen into the Porter Exchange for the endless Asian foods on the first floor, take the elevator to the fourth.

Saturday July 19, 2003

A weekend trip to Miriam Goodman’s cabin in Nelson NH.

Looking down the meadow from Miriam’s cabin south towards Mt. Monadnock (right rear of picture)

Miriam’s cabin

Nelson, NH

Sunday July 20, 2003

We left Miriam’s cabin around 11 am. She was already getting connected as we departed:

Lunenburg MA

We stopped in Jaffrey, NH to have iced tea with friends Bonnie and Martin. From there we took the “scenic” route home. This included a stretch on Rte 2A that leads through Lunenburg.

We had a picnic lunch from our cooler full of cold roast chicken augmented by some of Dave’s special cole slaw and a dill pickle at Conrads on 2A in Lunenburg.

Baseball field Lunenburg

Just for the nostalgia, since I grew up to age 14 in Lunenburg, we stopped by the ball field and the old house on Main Street

Our old house on Main St. Lunenburg

7/27/2003 – Sunday – Peabody Essex Museum

Went to see the newly opened $100m buildingStopped at Kelly’s in Revere on the way.

BLOG MANUFACTURING NOTES

Monday 7/21/03: I have begun the second half of the 2003 YIP Project using some new software, NoteTaker (1.5.4 from Aquaminds)

I actually began using this application to help organize all of the materials, projects, and wanderings on my laptop. I noticed that it publishes the ntoebooks quite effectively in a web version. So, I began to experiment with using it for the YIP Project.

I like the simple intuitive interface of the tabbed notebook. Although NoteTaker’s handling of images is rudimentary in terms of controlling their positions on pages, the rest of the application is very much more flexible and satisfying than my earlier iView Media produced YIP project.

Aquaminds has been responsive to my inquiries and I am hoping that future releases will improve the flexibility of the web exports.

Thursday 05/08/03: I have experimented with the iBlog application, but have found it unstable and a bit cranky to deal with. The developers in Hyderabad, India at Lifli, Ltd. have been helpful, but the troubles with the FTP function and tracking of rev’s is too much for me now. They seem focused on Apple’s .Mac service which I can’t use because it is to small and inflexible in its offerings and architecture, though it is rather elegantly integrated with the Mac operating environment.

I have also looked at the standard blogging solution at Moveable Type but this very elegant and flexible solution will require too much effort on my part to dig through the MySQL database and PHP scripting. I am more focused on the photoblog as output than the manufacturing process.

So, for the moment, I continue to use the HTML Gallery function in iView MediaPro. I’ve made some modifications to the templates that make it look like it fits into the clunky appearance of the rest of my site.

Thursday 02/24/2003: Today’s New York Times contained a story about “photobloggers”! Turns out that there are already people doing exactly the same thing as my YIP project and variations thereon. Once again, I am proven to be hopelessly behind the sheek curve.

PS: if anyone knows of good photoblogging software, send me an email.