Torment, Washington DC, 1973, Today's Coolphoto 05/02/2019

This young woman was evangelizing while the two young men were taunting her with questions to trip her up. She was missing a tooth. How did she lose it? She seemed desperate to fulfill her mission, and frightened. I didn’t intervene. This took place on the Mall in Washington DC during a big students rally.

Torment, Washington DC, 1973 (Vintage Silver)
Original 1973 :: Print 1993 :: Size 8x10 :: Stamp On Back :: $625.

Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice is to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. What you see is a scan of the actual print that is for sale. Please note that vintage prints are imperfect; they will show regular wear and tear that comes with age. Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Pigment Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Old Woman Crabbing, Today's Coolphoto 05/01/2019

Along the shoreline just below my father's childhood home is a promenade that travels where a thicket of lumber and shingle mills once dominated.  They were all gone finally when the last burned down in the late nineteen nineties. Along the promenade are concrete piers that once allowed fishing.  This woman is fishing for crabs on a late winter evening.

Original Negative: 4x5

Old Woman Crabbing, Today's Coolphoto 05/01/2019
Original 2003 :: Print 2003 :: Size 8x10 :: Stamp On Back :: $625.

Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice is to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. What you see is a scan of the actual print that is for sale. Please note that vintage prints are imperfect; they will show regular wear and tear that comes with age. Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Pigment Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Hands On The Fret, Today's Coolphoto 4/30/2019

One of my first large scale projects was of Hands, and I chose friends and relatives primarily, but I also visited Nativity House downtown. Nativity House was in an old storefront back then, and allowed anyone to drop in for warmth, a bit of food, coffee, and companionship. It was the inspiration of David Rothrock to establish it. The place collected people who had been beaten pretty badly by life on the street. Now and again a young person with a guitar would arrive, fresh into a personal voyage of discovery.

Hands On The Fret, Tacoma, 1982 (Vintage Silver)
Original 1982 :: Print 1982 :: Size 8x10 :: Signed On Front :: $625.

Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice is to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. What you see is a scan of the actual print that is for sale. Please note that vintage prints are imperfect; they will show regular wear and tear that comes with age. Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Pigment Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Old Glory At Stadium High, Today's Coolphoto 4/29/2019

Stadium High was built as a luxury hotel but construction stopped during the Panic of 1893, and then the building was gutted by fire in 1898. The city of Tacoma converted it into its first high school six years later. The building surrounds a large central courtyard on three sides. Above it they sometimes fly the Stars and Stripes of the United States.

Old Glory At Stadium High, Tacoma, 2001 (Vintage Silver)
Original 2001 :: Print 2001 :: 8x10 :: Stamp On Back :: $625.

Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice is to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. What you see is a scan of the actual print that is for sale. Please note that vintage prints are imperfect; they will show regular wear and tear that comes with age. Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Fred Meets Therese, Today's Coolphoto 4/28/2019

Fred Meets Therese, Tacoma, 1996 ©2019 Christopher Petrich

Fred Meets Therese, Tacoma, 1996 ©2019 Christopher Petrich

We always have a TV on in the kitchen. When the girls were little we would watch these old I Love Lucy reruns because they ran at dinner time. Therese was ten or eleven when she and Fred met. Vintage Silver, 10x8, $625.

Vintage prints are made within a year of the photographs create date. My usual practice was to print within a few days or weeks of exposure. There are at most six prints per image; most images have three or fewer prints. Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Vintage - When I print the photograph within a year of the original exposure, that becomes a Vintage Print.
Archival Pigment - When I print in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper, I call that an Archival Print.
Silver - When I print in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper, that is a Silver Print. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

A Woman In Shadow Of Winter, Tacoma, 1990, (Vintage Silver), Today's Coolphoto 4/26/2019

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Near the county courthouse, South Eleventh Street drops quickly down the bluff above downtown Tacoma. Fancy law offices command the walls keeping the hillside intact above the slope. At noon in late winter the shade trees along the sidewalk cast these serpentine shadows that wrap around the people who pass by, and some look back at the moment of exposure, just as this woman did. Nearly a hundred years before there was a wood frame building with a cupola in the Victorian manner with 4 men standing outside on the corner and no trees. (Washington State Historical Society [Tacoma Wall Paper Co., 1002 So. Tacoma Ave., Tacoma])

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

Back in the day when I was young and excited by the great photographs of the street I had seen, I stepped out the door to get some of the same. The shuffle and rhythm of past shooter’s footsteps echoed before me, along with the click of their shutters and their gasps of surprise.

Street Photography is the original focus of photography; its subject most quickly and easily captured and recognized. And even now, we look for those looks on the faces sent our way as we rush past.

For the next few days I’ll be showing my latest finds. I’ll be showing faces as they pass, and the wake of others that have already sailed by. I’ll be showing scenes that grabbed me by the shoulders and cried, “Did you see that? Did you SEE THAT!”

Vintage - I printed the photograph within a year of the original exposure.
Archival Pigment - Printed in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper.
Silver - Printed in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Christopher Petrich is a photographer active in the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma Washington where he grew up and raised a family. Over his 50 year career he has worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan as well as in 23 American states coast to coast. He has placed his work in corporate and private collections worldwide.  

La traditionnelle visite a la boulangerie, Today's Coolphoto

Today we met at the local boulagngerie in Burien, called Bakery Nouveau. We have a sandwich and talk about photography the way old friends do. It was a busy place on a fine morning. Look at those eyes.

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The Traditional Trip To The Boulangerie (la traditionnelle visite à la boulangerie), Burien 2019
Original Date 2019
Print Date 2019
Size 11x9
Format Archival Pigment
Edition Open
Stamp On Back
Price $250

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

Back in the day when I was young and excited by the great photographs of the street I had seen, I stepped out the door to get some of the same. The shuffle and rhythm of past shooter’s footsteps echoed before me, along with the click of their shutters and their gasps of surprise.

Street Photography is the original focus of photography; its subject most quickly and easily captured and recognized. And even now, we look for those looks on the faces sent our way as we rush past.

For the next few days I’ll be showing my latest finds. I’ll be showing faces as they pass, and the wake of others that have already sailed by. I’ll be showing scenes that grabbed me by the shoulders and cried, “Did you see that? Did you SEE THAT!”

Vintage - I printed the photograph within a year of the original exposure.
Archival Pigment - Printed in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper.
Silver - Printed in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Christopher Petrich is a photographer active in the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma Washington where he grew up and raised a family. Over his 50 year career he has worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan as well as in 23 American states coast to coast. He has placed his work in corporate and private collections worldwide.  

Patti At The Piano, Today's Coolphoto

We retrieved this Gulbransen upright from the basement of my parents’ home where it had been since we moved in some 20 years before. What took eight hours for two men from the moving company to get in, my two friends and I got out in forty five minutes, door to door. The basement door was at the foot of a stairway ten feet below. The secret was to ask my father Jim, a naval architect and marine engineer, to look at it. “They had trouble because the piano was too big for the well and they spent all those hours lifting and turning it to fit into the door. Just build a platform to raise it about a foot above the floor of the well,” he said.

Worked like a champ. Thanks Dad, you’re brilliant!

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Patti At The Piano, Tacoma, 1996, (Vintage Silver)
Print 18164
Original Date 1996
Print Date 2096
Size 10x8
Format Silver
Edition One Only
Stamp On Back
Price $625

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

Back in the day when I was young and excited by the great photographs of the street I had seen, I stepped out the door to get some of the same. The shuffle and rhythm of past shooter’s footsteps echoed before me, along with the click of their shutters and their gasps of surprise.

Street Photography is the original focus of photography; its subject most quickly and easily captured and recognized. And even now, we look for those looks on the faces sent our way as we rush past.

For the next few days I’ll be showing my latest finds. I’ll be showing faces as they pass, and the wake of others that have already sailed by. I’ll be showing scenes that grabbed me by the shoulders and cried, “Did you see that? Did you SEE THAT!”

Vintage - I printed the photograph within a year of the original exposure.
Archival Pigment - Printed in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper.
Silver - Printed in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Christopher Petrich is a photographer active in the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma Washington where he grew up and raised a family. Over his 50 year career he has worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan as well as in 23 American states coast to coast. He has placed his work in corporate and private collections worldwide.  

Street Smarts, Today's Coolphoto

This boy was lost in a physical reverie, trying to climb up the small slope on cardboard in stocking feet. He would slip and fall forward every time, over a dozen tries, until he saw me, and then he twirled around, only to drop onto his butt.

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Pirouettes On Cardboard, Tacoma (2019)
Original Date 2019
Print Date 2019
Size 11x9
Format Archival Pigment
Edition Open
Stamp On Back
Price $250

The contrast between the dark gallery wall and the well-lit hall outside was compelling in its simplicity. Then the boy walked into my frame and transformed the image into beauty. I love this image.

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The Boy deYoung, San Francisco (2014)
Original Date 2014
Print Date 2019
Size 11x9
Format Archival Pigment
Edition Open
Stamp On Back
Price $250

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

First Ever Photograph of a Human Being —Boulevard du Temple in Paris (1838) by Louis Daguerre. In the bottom left hand corner is a man who was having his shoes shined.

Back in the day when I was young and excited by the great photographs of the street I had seen, I stepped out the door to get some of the same. The shuffle and rhythm of past shooter’s footsteps echoed before me, along with the click of their shutters and their gasps of surprise.

Street Photography is the original focus of photography; its subject most quickly and easily captured and recognized. And even now, we look for those looks on the faces sent our way as we rush past.

For the next few days I’ll be showing my latest finds. I’ll be showing faces as they pass, and the wake of others that have already sailed by. I’ll be showing scenes that grabbed me by the shoulders and cried, “Did you see that? Did you SEE THAT!”

Vintage - I printed the photograph within a year of the original exposure.
Archival Pigment - Printed in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper.
Silver - Printed in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Christopher Petrich is a photographer active in the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma Washington where he grew up and raised a family. Over his 50 year career he has worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan as well as in 23 American states coast to coast. He has placed his work in corporate and private collections worldwide.  

Today's CoolPhoto 4/19/2019

The only route to the south end of Vashon Island is by ferry from Point Defiance to Tahlequah. For a young family, the ride represented a cheap outing and a chance to be on the water in summer. The passage is deep, over 90 fathoms at one point en route, and over the years we have seen whales and dolphins swim near as we crossed. We crossed on the ferry Hiyu in 1982.

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On The Ferry To Vashon, Tacoma, 1982, (Silver)
Print 18163
Original Date 1982
Print Date 2008
Size 10x8
Format Silver
Edition One Only
Stamp On Back
Price $625

Vintage - I printed the photograph within a year of the original exposure.
Archival Pigment - Printed in my studio using computer technology with pigmented inks on acid and lignin free paper.
Silver - Printed in my darkroom on gelatin silver paper. These prints are double weight on a cotton fiber base.

Price does not include shipping or taxes.

Christopher Petrich is a photographer active in the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma Washington where he grew up and raised a family. Over his 50 year career he has worked on projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan as well as in 23 American states coast to coast. He has placed his work in corporate and private collections worldwide.