Continuing to slide back through time to some of my earliest work. In December 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a "Bed-In" in Montreal. I happened to be attending university there at the time, and often had my camera with me. One day I noticed one of their billboards and quickly framed and snapped this shot. A moment in time. The end of the Sixties, too, that turbulent decade in which I spent my teen years. I was 20 at the time, about to turn 21 on the Winter Solstice, and ready for something new and exciting in life, although I would slog through one more semester of school before hitting the road.
Photographed in Montreal, Quebec (Canada); scanned from the original Tri-X negative, made with a Pentax Spotmatic and 50 mm lens. My first good camera! Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1970 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Here's Bob in the doorway of his family home in Rosemere, Quebec. I had arrived at his place to find he'd just shaved off his beard; I thought he looked like a Welsh coal miner or maybe an obnoxious kid on the playground who might sneakily throw an iceball at the side of my head. I'm not sure if we knew it at the time, but we would become lifetime friends.
Scanned from the original Ektachrome-X slide (ISO 64), May 1970.
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This is Bob outside his home in Rosemere, Quebec. He was 19. He beat that smoking habit a couple of years ago. Aye, laddie, it's about time!
Scanned from the original Ektachrome-X slide (ISO 64), May 1970.
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I was 21, last year in school, and I would bring my camera downtown and do little walkabouts between classes (and sometimes skipped classes). This was the year I figured out that I wasn't really interested in an academic career.
I was beginning to notice the shapes of things, rather than just the things themselves. An important step. Becoming aware of visual design.
Photographed in Montreal, Quebec (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1970 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Rocky was one of our family pets when I was in my teens. We don't know how he lost the eye - maybe in a fight with raccoons. He wasn't a fighter at all, so it must have been a serious and dangerous encounter. He was an escape artist, almost impossible to contain; he would break out of the various backyard enclosures my father constructed for him, and often be gone for days. He lived to 17, and the missing eye was never a problem. I didn't have a tripod in 1970 when I made this shot, so I lay down on my parents' living room floor and allowed the 200mm lens to rest flat for a 1 second exposure at f/4 on Ektachrome-X film.
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