Photography Friday: Rebecca Richards

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Xian City Wall at Dusk by Rebecca Richards at Xian in Shaanxi province, China.

“This photograph was taken atop the Xian city wall at dusk.The wall was originally built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the wall was enlarged and extended by order of the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It was a magical experience to watch as the lanterns were lit one by one, and the roofs of the pagodas were outlined with white lights. In Xian, as in every city in China, the ancient mixes with the modern.”

Rebecca Richards is a Registered Nurse currently living in San Francisco. More of her photographs can be seen at http://rebeccarichards.zenfolio.com/p679600392

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Photography Friday: Dr Michael Goldfein

P1220058mgIce crystals on a glass storm door, taken by Dr Michael Goldfein on the day of the Martha Vineyard blizzard, January 22, 2014. It was 12 degrees out when the picture was taken.

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Photography Friday: Irv Steinfink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hindu Shavite Pilgrim, Benares, India by Irv Steinfink. Irv, who lives in Boston, has been a photographer for over forty years.

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Photography Friday: Deborah Olesh

Autumn, Lake Celeste

Deborah Olesh is a retired science and computer teacher in Queens, NY, where she belongs to a photography club. She also lives on this scenic lake in Garrison, NY.

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Photography Friday: Sebastian Zimmermann

Dr. Charles Brenner, by Sebastian Zimmermann

Dr. Brenner served as President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and was a cornerstone of the Society and Institute, remaining active there for more than 50 years.

“In 2005, I set out to photograph Charles Brenner.  Since he had already retired, I met him in his home. While I was photographing him, I noticed a beautiful chess game in the back of his living room. When I asked him about the game, Dr. Brenner said that he had not played in a while. He mentioned that Freud liked to play chess in the coffee houses of Vienna. He added that Freud once compared psychoanalysis to the game of chess where the players could only know with certainty the opening and end-game moves and that the middle was more unpredictable.
I spontaneously asked Dr. Brenner if I could photograph him in front of his chess board. He readily agreed. I took a whole series of images of him while he looked at me intently, much like a formidable grand master.
I later wondered why I was drawn to photograph Dr. Brenner in front of a chess board. I think to me, at that moment, the game of chess was a metaphor for the warring factions of a mind in conflict.
Dr. Brenner’s precise, logical and rule-bound style of psychoanalysis is mirrored in the royal game. And most would agree, Charles Brenner was one of the kings of psychoanalysis.”
Sebastian Zimmermann, Psychiatrist and photographer

Photography Friday: Jonathon Miller

A Passage in the Sidon Souk

Jonathon Miller has been an analysand for eighteen months. Since beginning analysis, he says, “I have become increasingly interested in the objects that I want to photograph and their relation to my unconscious mind. I have found that there is almost always a relation between these objects and my unconscious mind, which can take some time for me to become consciously aware of.”

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Photography Friday: Vicki Finkel

This fine portrait was taken by Vicki Finkel on a recent trip to China. Vicki is a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan and a graduate of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, (NYSPP). More of Vicki’s excellent photography can be seen at the Atlantic Gallery at 135 West 29th Street (Suite 601) in New York City from now until December 23rd.

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Photography Friday: Bill Spira

Bill Spira, who is married to a psychotherapist, describes himself as an “independent, addicted, black-and-white photographer.” The above work is an analog (film-based) image.

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