Rosemary 1968 - Alex 2 December 20924 - Curtis Daily

Because I am so often behind my camera I like to use the expression “who shaves the barber” in relation to photographs that others take of me. This does not happen often. This past week my Portland friend Curtis Daily paid me a visit. I asked him to “shave this barber”.

The technique is a one shot (if subject closes eyes, tough) and grossly underexposed with my Fuji X-E3. The colours are odd (I like them). I was happy with Daily’s portrait.

Last night, when he was gone I had long thoughts of how in so many travels with my Rosemary and daughters or granddaughters she would stand behind me and tell me to photograph them.

I regret that I did not take more portraits of her.

What you see here is one in a series that I took in Mexico City in 1968 a few months after we were married. I had never taken photographs of anybody in the nude. I love this shot as it shows her tenderness and beauty.

And yes this barber shaved the barber’s wife. And why this blog?

Curtis Daily and I visited Don Stewart’s Macleod Books. I spotted this lovely book in which photographer Arthur Ollman features the photographs taken by well-known photographers of their wives and lovers.