A collection of my photographs have found a home
I am pleased to announce that 257 of my photographs featuring Cincinnati and the Tri-State region are now available online through the Cincinnati Public Library. The photos are identified by subject matter with relevant information, so visitors can search this permanent collection using keywords. Each image can be enlarged by clicking on it, and an arrow will expand it to full screen.
How The Collection Began
During 1961-1962 I worked as a lab technician for Brand Studio, a commercial photography business on Central Parkway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Frequently, on lunch hours, I walked a few blocks north with a 35mm camera to take pictures in the Over-The-Rhine area, an early German settlement of brownstones and apartment buildings with attached stores.
It was a large, depressed neighborhood at the time, and being a novice photographer, I found it an interesting place to photograph textures and diverse people on the street. Especially appealing visually, was Findlay Market, the large and vibrant centerpiece of the community. Vendors and shoppers were so busy, they barely noticed me. Rather than walk, sometimes I slowly drove around with the car windows rolled down so I could shoot through them with a telephoto lens.
I stopped photographing there in 1962 to attend Rochester Institute of Technology and was afterward employed by Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. Returning to Cincinnati to work as a Sales Representative for Kodak Stores, I spent occasional weekends in the Over-The-Rhine district, but as time passed my aesthetic preferences shifted from people and street photography to a much wider range of subjects and locations.
In 2022 I published a monograph that contains 78 pages of photographs entitled, Over-The-Rhine: A Cincinnati Neighborhood 1961-1977. You can click on the book cover to open it. Click on a page to turn it—up to 15 pages. And click on the photos to enlarge them. The complete series of monographs can be viewed this way at the Blurb Bookstore.
The library collection is intended to provide a visual record of the Tri-State region throughout the period 1961-2020.
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