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some old pictures I took: Photographer, Havana

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Some old pictures I took. Monday, July 27, 2015. Photographer, Parque Central, Havana, 1991. THE OLD MAN SET UP HIS CAMERA IN THE PARQUE CENTRAL,. Just across from the Capitol building and a block up the street from my hotel, the Inglaterra. He was one of the few private businesses that was operating in Havana at the time, just after the Soviets cut off aid to the country, and just before they ceased to exist altogether. He would extract the paper negative from the little drawer at the bottom of the came...

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some old pictures I took: Karen

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Some old pictures I took. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Karen Finley, Toronto, 1988. KAREN FINLEY WAS CONSIDERED A MARTYR FOR FREE EXPRESSION. In the arts back in the '80s. And like most martyrs for this sort of thing she has the distinction of still being alive. Which makes you a funny sort of martyr, don't you think? Decided to do a story on her. Work with me, baby! Which scandalized me more than her show, to be honest; my working method has always been low key, almost wordless, and I didn't understand why F...

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some old pictures I took: Mal & Marion

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Some old pictures I took. Friday, July 3, 2015. Marion Brown and Mal Waldron, Toronto, Oct. 1988. MAL WALDRON WAS A PERSONAL FAVORITE OF A LOCAL JAZZ PROMOTER,. I was still a neophyte jazz fan, but the one thing I did know about Waldron was that he was Billie Holiday's accompanist during the last years of her life. He even made an appearance in the last stanza of Frank O'Hara's poem " The Day Lady Day Died. And I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of. Leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT. I photogra...

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some old pictures I took: July 2015

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Some old pictures I took. Friday, July 31, 2015. Chris Buck, Parkdale, Toronto, June 1990. MY GOOD FRIEND CHRIS BUCK HAD HIS BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK,. And as I promised a year ago at this time. I thought I'd dig out some more portraits I took of him back when we were young photographers, testing out film and equipment with each other as subjects. I found these buried in a binder of unedited slides, and found them interesting, if only for technical reasons. Chris Buck, Parkdale, Toronto, June 1990. The black a...

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some old pictures I took: Replacements

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Some old pictures I took. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Bob Stinson, Toronto, April 6, 1986. AFTER THE IMPROBABLE FEAT OF RE-FORMING AFTER 20 YEARS,. Thanks to the efforts of fans. And the wonder of the internet, I know exactly when these were shot: April 6, 1986, at the Concert Hall (aka The Masonic Temple) on Yonge Street, when the band were in town touring to support Tim. This would be the last tour Bob Stinson would do with the band; after playing on the demo tapes for Pleased To Meet Me. Beer profi...

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some old pictures I took: Self-portrait

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Some old pictures I took. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Self-portrait, Gray Ave., spring 1986. I DON'T LIKE MY FACE. That's probably why I have so few pictures of myself. I'm 51 today, and feelings about my face aside, I should be used to it by now, which seems as good an excuse as any to excavate the scarce handful of self-portraits in my archives. At home on Maitland St., 1988. Photo by Chris Buck. Technically this isn't a self-portrait, but it was. I handed the Mamiya to him and told him to have a go. ...

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some old pictures I took: Rudolf

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Some old pictures I took. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, January 1991. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE BALLET DANCERS WERE CELEBRITIES. I took these photos of Rudolf Nureyev at probably the last moment that was true, at a time when there was still a highbrow culture that wasn't obscure, and when newspapers had salaried dance critics on staff. It's not that long ago, at least in my mind. I was on assignment for NOW. Architectural Digest, Sept. 1985. I'm pretty sure nobody saw me.

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some old pictures I took: Rowland

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Some old pictures I took. Thursday, April 9, 2015. Rowland S. Howard, Toronto, April 1, 1988. TO THIS DAY I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHY I PHOTOGRAPHED. Rowland S. Howard and his band. I had given the first These Immortal Souls record a bad review in Nerve. And I didn't do an interview that might have accompanied these photos in the paper. The mystery is why I assigned myself to shoot a band whose record I panned without a client to take care of the expenses or put the results in print. A recent documentary f...

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some old pictures I took: Green Day

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Some old pictures I took. Friday, April 17, 2015. Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Toronto, October 1997. GREEN DAY ARE BEING INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME THIS WEEKEND. I'm not going to comment much on that except to point out that Dick Dale, Roxy Music and the MC5 aren't. In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And to use the occasion to revisit my own shoot with Green Day, done for NOW. Magazine nearly twenty years ago. Green Day were already big but the success of Nimrod. I'm not in the hab...

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some old pictures I took: Steve

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Some old pictures I took. Friday, July 17, 2015. Steve Lacy, Toronto, April 1990. I SUPPOSE JAZZ HAS ALWAYS STRUGGLED TO SURVIVE,. But at the turn of the '90s in Toronto, it was painful to watch venues and promoters struggle to find venues. This was, ironically, when the music was undergoing probably its last rally as a commercial music, when major labels still had jazz divisions and jazz festivals still featured jazz musicians. Steve Lacy, Toronto, April 1990. Steve Lacy died in Boston on June 4, 2004.