Featured Guiseppe Pagano Photograph

You bet--- let's 'em!

 

I believe I've had this exact photo hanging in my kitchen for about 12 years now. I found it on the street in Missoula Montana where I was living at the time

 

Would love to see what ya got.

Debora

 

Looks like Uncle Fester !

 

Hello im so sorry for the late update! Here are some photos i took of the art i have in 2019, they have been in storage ever since and there is at least one not shown here but maybe more as i truly can not remember if i took photos of each one in 2019. The one that I know I am missing though, was always my favorite. It was a group of women sitting in a ornate looking Opera House in the front seats, and they were clearly working class women with mops and buckets, they looked middle-aged and even a little bit overweight but not on a bad way. they were just realistic human beings photographed on the job. The frame got broken early on in my twenties and I just carried around the print moving from house to house, somewhere along the way it got lost and it's one of the photos I've been looking for the longest. I can't find information on any of them but If I could find and replace that one, my heart would feel whole again. Adding more to the timeline, my parents got married in 1983 and my dad's mother passed away when he was 12 which would have been 1971 so the photos were purchased before the 70s i believe. I will have to ask my mom for more information but I remember her telling me many times that these photos were purchased by my dad with his mom.

 

And here are the others, including some framed watercolor (prints i believe) that were purchased at the same time. I'm not sure exactly where these were purchased but my dad grew up in Nebraska,USA so most likely somewhere in the state.

 

Thanks for coming back after all of this time. I know you weren't the person who started this thread -- but from what you wrote two years ago, I think you are wondering who the photographer was. Is that correct?

I may have time to look sometime this weekend, although time is short right at the moment. Somebody else may take up the cause, too!

 

Yes i am interested in learning more, anything i can about the photographer or the story behind the photos. Thank you!

 

Are the two photographs I'm seeing signed by two different photographers? Both, as I wrote earlier, were inspired by the 'Small Trades' series that Irving Penn began in the 1950s. They are not his work. It would be helpful if you posted other examples of the photographs you have, of which some appear to be portraits and some landscapes. They all appear to have been framed in the 1970s.

Debora