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adalbertbruce
@adalbertbruce.bsky.social
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I'm into books, cinema, comics, photography (both analog and digital -- street photography, being in the right place at intriguing times), weird fiction, zines... Grounded in the Pacific Northwest.
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A picture I took; New York City, 1994. From a negative. #analogphotography #negative #newyorkcity #streetphotography
Passersby going in alternate directions, underneath a bilingual Chinese/English sign in New York City. The sidewalk and buildings disappear into the distance. -JBF
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Parental slide photo; with my grandmother sitting under that great midcentury-style clock, aunt in a blur, cousins, and uncle, on the other side of the table. My mother's back was to the camera; my grandfather on the left of the table. Seattle, Wash., circa 1958. #35mm #1950s #analogphotography
Photo probably by Bruce W. Falk, showing family and relatives with a large repast on a table. The two young people are drinking from glasses; a clock with large radiating spikes was on the wall. One woman (my aunt) is upright, in motion. -JBF
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Here's the original cassette tape, from the 1-20-85 conversation in Denver, on the YouTube video. On the other side was a sample of William S. Burroughs reading, along with some Throbbing Gristle, and other industrial stuff. I recorded the works from records, or maybe from the radio, or from both.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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A photo of me, at Mt. St. Helens; 1994. From a negative. #analogphotography #mtsthelens #negative #volcano #washingtonstate
A photo of me, standing on a low wall, 1994. I wore a short-sleeved shirt, and blue jeans. Mt. St. Helens and surroundings showed ample blast damage from the 1980 eruption (which I had witnessed from about 50 miles away). Photo by HF. -JBF
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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My great-aunt (wearing a hat), and mother; circa 1958. Location not known. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #analogphotography #slidephoto #streetphotography
My great-aunt Magda Lenox, and my mother, standing by a telephone booth. A classic 1950s car is in the background. -JBF
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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My mother (furthest from the camera) and her parents; circa 1958. Possibly in Seattle, while visiting. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #analogphotography #pacificnorthwest #slidephoto
Hazel M. Falk (in back), and her parents, in single file on a path, with houses behind. -JBF
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Parental slide photo; Nikolski, Aleutian Islands, circa 1958. The caption mentioned a name of one of the subjects -- that of Bernie Whitlock. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #alaska #aleutianislands #analogphotography #cigar #nikolski #slidephoto #whitealice #workers
Slide photo by Bruce W. Falk; showing his coworkers in side view, or partially turned postures. They wore patterned work shirts, near a storage trailer of some sort, and close to a treeless bluff. -JBF
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Spaghetti feed, Anvil Mountain, Nome, Alaska (White Alice site); circa 1958. Parental slide photo. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #alaska #analogphotography #coldwar #nome #nomealaska #whitealice
Photo by Bruce W. Falk; showing a number of men eating, and moving around a kettle of spaghetti on a table. One tall balding man is gesturing and standing. -JBF
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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A photo of my father (Bruce W. Falk), during his time in the USMC; circa 1946. #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #marines #veteransday
My father, Bruce W. Falk, in the United States Marine Corps, in dress uniform, and hat. Black and white photo. He was smiling widely, looking off to the side. -JBF
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Found photo; Vietnam War-era serviceman, with his leg on a large utility spool. Per Google Image Search, he was outfitted in "a tan or khaki Class B uniform" (U.S. Air Force). #analogphotography #diagonal #foundphoto #veteransday
A Vietnam War-era uniformed airman, with his arms folded, and his right arm on a wooden cable spool; by a hedge, and in front of residential buildings, shot on the diagonal. Found photo. -JBF
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Sunrise; 7-11-25. #clouds #dawn #november #sky #sunrise
Swirling dark clouds, and trees on the edge of earth; at sunrise. -JBF
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Me (with family member, whom I took the liberty of omitting); Jackson Glacier Overlook; Glacier National Park, Montana; Aug. 1969 -- returning from; or going to Canada. Right around the time frame when Jimi Hendrix was playing the Star-Spangled Banner, at Woodstock. #35mm #glacier #naturephotography
Slide photo by Bruce W. Falk; showing me as a child, with then-blonde hair, and my sibling (omitted in the photo); with the sweeping vista at Jackson Glacier Overlook, in Glacier National Park, Montana. Mountains and glaciers soar, with dense forests in the middle ground: 1969. -JBF
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Photo by mom; at the rink, Clackamas, Oregon, ca. 1994. Wrestler, Playboy Buddy Rose (blonde hair), appeared in the background. Circa the time of the notorious knee attack -- in fact, I believe that's the late Shawn Eckardt (AKA Brian Sean Griffith), left. #analogphotography #negative #tonyaharding
Photo by Hazel M. Falk, showing two men, both with mustaches, in extreme closeup. A man was holding a mike up to the late wrestler Playboy Buddy Rose, in the background, underneath a sign (outside the previous Clackamas Town Center Ice Chalet/rink). From a negative. -JBF
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Parental slide photo; my cousin, pitching a baseball to my uncle. The ball is eternally suspended mid flight; a manifestation of durée. Seattle, Washington; circa 1958. #analogphotography #1950s #35mm #35mmfilm #backyard #baseball #catch #seattle #slidephoto #washingtonstate
My cousin tossing a baseball to his father (Roger Vogel; in a white tshirt, back turned), in their backyard in Seattle; late 1950s. With overcast skies. Photo probably by Bruce W. Falk. -JBF
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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White House, and surroundings; 9-18-16. #streetphotography #washingtondc #whitehouse
People (including a man calling out Islamic prayers) walk and mill in the space before the White House, with a grey, overcast sky; 2016. -JBF
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Family triptych; 1960s. From a negative. I looked as if I was awakening from a nightmare. My father appeared as though he was thinking: What the hell did I get myself in for? #1960s #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #family #midcentury #negative
My father holding me and my sister as small children; seated in a chair, on a blanket; in a midcentury living room. -JBF
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A still life for the macabre season; from March 2025. #Halloween #stilllife #vanitas
A still life photo, with an Asian figure with a distorted head, a cigar box, a mock skull, and other items. -JBF
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Galerie d'Apollon (Apollo Gallery); Musée du Louvre, 16 December, 2013. #apollogallery #artmuseum #france #louvre #paris
A photo I took, at the Louvre Museum, showing the Apollo Gallery (12-16-13); with indirect light angling through windows. Intricate gilt molding and paintings cover the rounded, long ceilings. Museum visitors study the offerings (the Gallery is also notorious for a recent heist). -JBF
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Armchair Books/Bookstore (the storefront, and home, are no longer extant), and environs; Portland, Oregon, 18 January, 2014. #bookstore #demolished #dusk #portlandoregon #streetphotography
Armchair Books, which I, along with friends and family, once frequented, starting around 1980. Someone tore down the structure, circa 2023, after years of decline (and ever-increasing seediness). The gables of the attached house, and other small houses and buildings, stood amidst bare trees, Milwaukie Avenue, and a twilight winter sky. -JBF
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Parental slide photo; Grand Canyon, May,1960. #35mm #35mmfilm #analogphotography #arizona #deeptime #geology #grandcanyon #naturephotography #southwest
Photo showing intricate, weathered layers of the Grand Canyon, and a near ledge. Photo caption in the handwriting of Hazel M. Falk. -JBF
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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New York; 17 October, 2019. #manhattan #newyork #precovid #streetphotography
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Parental slide photo: circa 1967; unintentionally surrealist. Switch the channel, and you might have seen footage of Haight-Ashbury, or of the Vietnam War... This was probably in our then-home in Milwaukie, Ore. #35mm #35mmfilm #1960s #analogphotography #blackandwhitetv #slidefilm #television
A slide photo by Bruce W. Falk, showing two children on a black-and-white television set, with a vase and flowers. Circa 1967. A touch of sunlight bleeds around the corner, with a timeless quality. -JBF
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Parental slide photo; Native Alaskans crabbing in the frozen Bering Sea; January, 1958. #35mm #35mmfilm #alaska #analogphotography #beringsea #frozen #indigenous #nativealaskan #nome #slidephoto
Four Native Alaskans on the frozen Bering Sea, with a hole for crabbing. And a dog. Handwriting on slide by Hazel M. Falk. -JBF
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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A photo I took; Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, the Bronx; 17 October, 2019. An apt image, for the Halloween season. Here, Poe wrote Ulalume: "It was night in the lonesome October/Of my most immemorial year..." #bronx #edgarallanpoe #fordham #newyorkcity #poecottage
A closeup of one side of the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, the Bronx; with three windows visible, green shutters, and white siding. -JBF
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A Native Alaskan child; Nikolski (Aleutian Islands), Alaska; parental slide photo, circa 1958. #35mm #35mmfilm #alaska #aleutianislands #analogphotography #indigenous #nativealaskan #nikolski #slidephoto #wheelbarrow
Photo by Bruce W. Falk; showing a native Alaskan boy, arms akimbo, in the foreground; Nikolski, Alaska. He wore overalls, a checked shirt, and stood by a homemade wheelbarrow. Grasses, and a low hill, and stream, made up the surroundings (under a cloudy sky). Circa 1958. -JBF
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM