After seeing Les' resurrected thread about why we photograph, I was motivated to look through some photographs that I printed up some twenty years ago from glass "slides" that my great grandfather made between about 1905 and 1925 or so.
I've studied these photos over the years, and I feel a very deep emotional connection to previous generations, and I think he left us an extraordinary gift. I hope the photographs I make of my children offer something similar to their children and grandchildren. This is why I make photographs.
I made an enlarged negative from the original small glass stereoscopic positive, and printed this one in pt/pd. I printed up several of these which I organized into a hand bound book. I asked my grandmother to write some notes about that time in her life to accompany the photographs.
My grandmother is front and center flanked by her two older brothers and embraced by their mother, my great grandmother. I have some photos in my gallery of my grandmother. She will be 98 this April.
