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The tomato shown earlier.
Jon Bosak
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Two: Someone caught sitting among the eucalipti.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717307, cont.: UC Riverside (1973?) One: The UCR Campus Police dispatcher.
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As a platform for what I create, I much prefer Mastodon to Bluesky. But the HOA atmosphere here and overt attempts to control how I present my work by throttling its distribution are becoming a bit more than I can take. I'm not quite ready to switch yet, but I can feel that coming.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717307: Riverside (1973?) When I arrived in Riverside in 1966, it was a beautiful rural place dominated by groves of navel oranges (which were invented there). By the time I left in 1982, the groves had been leveled, and Riverside converted into a distant-commute bedroom community for Los Angeles. These photos show an instance of the destruction…
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Two: Desert bloomscrolling.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717306: Riverside (1973) One: A Riverside County landscape.
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Once a year I treat myself to Cherokee Purple night, devoted to the consumption of one of the said tomatoes with a mayonnaise-mustard sauce. They are fiendishly difficult to grow (I have sometimes tried). Last week, the few available sold out at the Farmers' Market before I got there. I scored a small one this week and ate it tonight -- transcendent, as usual. But also this afternoon I managed to…
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Three: My friend Sarah Schlanger. I see that some studio portraits of Sarah are coming up soon, so I will save further comments till then.
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Two: A photo class.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717304: Riverside (1973) Not an entire roll, just one strip of negatives. One: Window display at an optician's.
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In honor of the eclipse, Annie Dillard's timeless essay. "All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind – the culture – has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world’s work. With these we try to save our very lives." "Total Eclipse." From Teaching a Stone to Talk https://…
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Three: Finishing-the-roll shots back at the publications office. I think that these people are working on the yearbook. The woman in #2 is pasting up a page or part of a layout.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303, cont.: Riverside (1973) The roll ends with the opening of the California Museum of Photography, whose collections "are the most extensive photographic holdings in the Western United States" (wikipedia). I took photos of items selected from the initial collection for the brochure that accompanied the opening. I scanned those negs a while…
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Three: Checking out.
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Two: A display.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303, cont.: Riverside (1973) Same roll, now out shopping. One: Baby food.
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Four: A tree.
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Three: Roommate Karen at the laundromat.
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Two: A visit to a thrift store.
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# photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303: Riverside (1973) The usual variety of subjects. One: Picking up processed film at the Fotomat.
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Three: Melanie at Sandy's. We spent as much time at Sandy's as we did at Denny's, a little ways farther down University Ave.