The process of sorting through my father’s stash of photographic slides continues, sputtering along. I cannot dedicate the time necessary to sort through them quickly, nor to clean them up (if such process is possible). They are filthy.
The Featured Image has a processing date of January 1973. The young girl beneath the blanket appears to be one of my sisters, two of whom looked more alike. Nanette says “pretty sure it’s me. The eyes would be a bit crossed if it were” our youngest sister. “That’s exactly how I lay on the couch when I’m sick today. My guess is I was sick”.
My father would have been 31—same age as our daughter, currently—and me thirteen, when he took the portrait of his daughter. He preferred shooting slides over 35mm film, for presentation and preservation purposes. In the companion capture, Nana looks at slides in a viewer, which made me laugh when first seeing the portrait. The viewer is similar to the one I use to review these same slides. I inherited it from my father-in-law.
Photo Credit: Joseph Wilcox