Paul Giambarba, Ruth, Venice, 1955
Oh, the wonder of Kodachrome photography. This is just a portion of a slide taken with an old Contax II and scanned without any Photoshop enhancement at least half a century from the time it was made.
Innocents Abroad, Revisited, 1959
My late wife, Ruth, and me, on our way to Milan in September of 1959 and my meeting with the famous Italian designer, Franco Grignani. This was to be my introduction to the rarified world of cerebral design by a creative genius in what was then a golden age for the brief period that design flourished in mid century. The photo was taken with a self-timer on an old Rolleiflex placed on an adjacent table.
Maestro Grignani's outstanding designs may be seen by clicking on this link to the recent upload of 100 Years of Illustration and Design.
By this time we had decided to comply with the Go Home Amis graffiti and were enjoying a last splurge, which was not difficult to do with the exchange rate so much in our favor. Alas, those days are gone forever now.
Analog photos by Paul Giambarba
My late wife, Ruth, in the Sedestal on our way from Bergen to Oslo in Norway.
4 July 1955. Scanned from 35mm Kodachrome and not enhanced.
My wife Fran in Lugano, Switzerland, 1985. Kodacolor.
Part of an exhibition of my photos at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2008. Kodak Plus-X and Tri-X film.
Author David McCullough, 1981
Illustrator Edward Gorey, 1982
Author Alec Wilkinson, 1982
Author Alex Theroux, 1981
Sculptor Joyce Johnson, 1981
Sculptor Arnold Geissbuhler, 1981
