Portraits for my nephew's use

Noah Lank 
(born 31 March 1998) 
photographed by Dale Wittig 
Mansfield & Willimantic CT 
April 2016 - December 2017

For my youngest nephew on his twentieth birthday, less than a week after his mother’s passing, I made these portraits for his possible future use.

Last of Winter in CT

Dale Wittig
Mansfield & Coventry CT
6 - 17 March 2018

These pictures, arranged in chronological order, cover 

the time from one late winter Nor'easter to the next.

As my sister lay dying at her son's house in Coventry (her son's though it had been hers and still in her name) I stayed at her basement apartment in Mansfield.  She had paid through the end of the month, though she didn't last to its end.  It was only after I returned to my home on the west coast (planning another visit in April) that she passed away. Everyone had felt and said that she would probably last a couple months more. 

Blonde Cobra

Ken Jacobs 
shot by Bob Flieshner & Jack Smith 
starring Jerry Sims & Jack Smith 
Lower East Side NYC 1963

The last scene shows Jerry stabbing Jack’s other man, who was hiding in the closet, in glorious color.

The Black Paintings

Izhar Patkin
enamel on neoprene 
& enamel on chromecoat 
1985 - 1986 New York City

Based on Jean Genet’s play, the Blacks, Patkins series of spray paint stenciled murals on draped neoprene was the highlight of the Whitney Biennal in ‘87.

Pedro Infante Cruz

18 November 1917, Mazatlán 
- 15 April 1957, Mérida

I’m posting a few beefcake pictures of the great actor and singer.  The last pictured is a picture of a picture held aloft at his funeral, as well as the swelling crowd.