A Rolling Crone
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Showing posts with label carte de visite. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2017

Circus Freaks and Tom Thumb--The Rock Star of the 19th Century

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(First posted this exactly seven years ago--one of my first "Story Behind the Photo"  essays that I hope will soon be collecte...
Friday, May 3, 2013

The Scourged Back-- A Famous Photo of a Beaten Runaway Slave, Revisited

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Yesterday (Thursday May 2, 2013) I came home at night and saw that my blog had received nearly 700 hits in a few hours, most of them for ...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Circus Freaks and Tom Thumb – The Rock Star of the 19th Century

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(The story behind the photos) Circus Freaks are having a moment. Recently my friends Andy and Veronica mentioned that they’re preparing art...
Friday, February 12, 2010

My Funny Valentine & “Playing with Pictures—The Art of Photo Collage”

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When I go into my favorite store—Target-- I always look at what’s in the $1.00 section. Recently it was all about Valentine’s Day and I gr...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Story behind the Photo: Elizabeth Keckley— First Black Woman in the White House

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On Sept. 27, I posted the story of Elizabeth Keckley , who was born a mixed-race slave in 1818 in a Virginia. (Her father was the ow...
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A Rolling Crone

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by Joan Gage
After 40 years as a journalist, I turned 60 and decided to return to my first love--painting. I’ve exhibited watercolors and photographs in Massachusetts and have a slide show of paintings below. My photo book “The Secret Life of Greek Cats” can be purchased by clicking on the cover below. I collect way too many things, but my great passion is antique photographs, from the earliest—daguerreotypes (circa 1840) up to 1900 (cabinet cards, tintypes.) I approach each one as a mystery to solve, and in unlocking their secrets have met some fascinating historic figures. For some of the stories, check the list of “The Story Behind the Photograph”. My husband Nick and I live in Grafton, MA and recently celebrated our 41st anniversary. We have 3 children, now amazing adults. And on Aug. 26, 2011, we greeted our first grandchild, AmalĂ­a-- world’s cutest baby. But this blog isn’t about grandparenting (although photos of the grandkid sneak in). As it says up top, it’s about travel, art, photography and life after sixty. And crone power.
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