mpcurtis, Author at Mel Curtis

Re: Blast from the Past

Richard, I guess news travels fast. It would be great to see you if you can make it. I plan to wear my Widelux around my neck as a bit of a homage to John. I can’t recall when I last saw John, but it was after I had closed my darkroom in 2006 and before I handed off my…

August 5, 2015Celebrations, Portraits, Seattle, Travels

architecture Paris Portraits Selfies Travels

Apartment Zola, Paris, May of 1999

Hey Girlfriend, So I looked and found these negs and like I thought, they are mine, not yours. I shot them, though I suppose you could have pushed the button. But I don’t think so. First the camera was on a tripod and secondly, my recollection is this was a selfie session. Lastly, the whole contact sheet is very posey...…

July 22, 2015architecture, Paris, Portraits, Selfies, Travels

Odds and Ends Seattle

Good on This Day Only

I was rummaging through my archives recently when I found this badge form a visit to Microsoft land. I looked at the date and wondered why I was there. I did a fair amount of work with them back then, but couldn't recall the specific project I was working on that might have had me at their offices on that…

July 17, 2015Odds and Ends, Seattle

Celebrations Gardens Seattle

A Perfect Moment

As an artist using a camera, I make lots of images of all kinds of things, of people and places. Most often it is later that I look at a photograph I have made and realize what a special moment that was, and that I didn't realize it at the time. On this morning I did. It was Sunday the…

July 8, 2015Celebrations, Gardens, Seattle

Odds and Ends Ohio Travels

An Unfinished Dialog

July 8, 2015Odds and Ends, Ohio, Travels

architecture Celebrations Roma Travels

The Big Show

June 28, 2015architecture, Celebrations, Roma, Travels

Celebrations Portraits Seattle

The Last Time I Saw Donna

My very dear friend Donna passed away last week, quite suddenly and quite unexpectedly. I had just seen her the week before at my opening at SAM. And now she was gone. She was a dear, sweet woman, so very elegant and full of grace and style. Over 30 years ago, as an artist's rep, she took me on as…

June 28, 2015Celebrations, Portraits, Seattle

Paris Roma Travels

Divert to Paris

I tend to save ticket stubs and other bits of ephemera, like boarding passes. Not collect them really, but rather stuff them into pockets of whatever coat or jacket I may have been wearing at the time and leave them there. Last week I was wearing my black linen jacket on a photo shoot and when I went to put…

May 13, 2015Paris, Roma, Travels

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Who Says You Can’t Go Back

Three years ago I spent an afternoon with students from AC Davis High School in Yakima, Washington. It was a good day, with great kids and we made a lot of great photographs together. I returned last week, to work with a new group of aspiring college bound students. And the school too had been renovated as well. There was…

April 30, 2015architecture, Celebrations, Portraits, Travels

Odds and Ends Ohio Uncategorized

4 Dead in Ohio

In the fall of 1981 I went to graduate school at Ohio University to study towards an MFA in photography. Since I considered myself as a newbie to photography, having studied and practiced graphic design in a former life, I was looking forward to filling the gaps of my photographic knowledge and perhaps become a more proficient practitioner of the…

March 31, 2015Odds and Ends, Ohio, Uncategorized