Frank Blackwell Photography

Frank Blackwell Photography

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  • Frank Blackwell sitting in a chair at a hair salon getting his hair cut with his camera to his eye, taking a picture of himself and the woman, Genevieve, cutting his hair.
    My daughter Genevieve
  • Just off of Madison Ave
  • black and white image of Bob Dylan playing guitar on stage
    Bob Dylan at the Palace Theater in New Haven, CT – April 14, 1996
  • New York City Skyline viewed from The Staten Island Ferry
  • Wild horses in Monument Valley, Utah
    Wild horses were all around me as I worked in Monument Valley. – circa 2012
  • A black and white portrait by Frank Blackwell of a woman in a dark robe with her shoulders exposed.
    A 1930’s style portrait taken in my Canal Street studio circa 1997
  • A single person in a bathing suit and a hat, seated in a beach chair, reading a book.
    Cape Hatteras Beach Bather – circa 1990.
  • An acrobat balancing himself on top of a revolving and twirling wheel, 75 feet in the air, at a country fair in Guilford, CT
    The Flying Wallendas
  • Some people in an Italian market in New Haven, Connecticut
    Vinny’s Italian Market – Grand Avenue, New Haven, CT
  • The brooklyn Bridge viewed from a restaurant window a few blocks away from the bridge.
    The Brooklyn Bridge as photographed through the window a restaurant a few blocks away.
  • Arthur Ashe on the tennis court in New Haven, CT
  • The statue of liberty and the twin towers
    The Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center, Thanksgiving Day, Nov 23, 2000. Photographed from the Staten Island Ferry.
  • A black and white photograph of a man who sines shoes at Grand Central Station
    Henry Mays, shoe shiner for many years, at the Vanderbilt exit of Grand Central Station in NYC. The last time I checked (2018) he was still there – circa 1985
  • A color photograph of one woman drinking coffee in an otherwise empty coffee shop. The shop is old and the people who work there are just hanging out.
    A late afternoon stop at a coffee shop somewhere along Route 66, maybe in Arizona – circa 2014.
  • A color photograph of an elderly woman wearing a medical mask, pushing a shopping cart, in a produce department of a grocery store during the pandemic. of 2020.
    A grocery store during the pandemic of 2020 showed how normal the unusual can be.
  • A night time black and white photo from the outside looking in at a barber shop.
    Someplace in the mid-west. Circa 1990s
  • From the seat of myu car I photographed a woman in full protective gear. She was about to swab my nose for a Covid-19 test.
    Prior to minor surgery, I was tested for Covid-19 by this front line nurse.
  • A rodeo rider; a man with a cowboy hat riding one horse and holding the rein or another horse.
    A rodeo rider in a Yuma, AZ rodeo – circa 1998
  • A woman standing at the edge of a frothing sea, with her hands slightly outstretched, seemingly summoning the sea.
    Jennifer and the Ocean
  • A young girl sitting on the edge of a kitchen sink, washing a red apple.
    Emma’s Apple
  • A young couple looking into each other's eyes while waiting for a subway train at Grand Central Station, NYC
    Street photography works particularly well in any NYC subway – circa 1993.
  • The head of a large white bird, the egret, popping up from directly behind a large rock. All that is showing is its neck and head.
    I was visiting my mom at her home in Menefee, California when this bird started walking along a stone wall behind my Mom’s house. I waited for this shot, and the bird obliged me.
  • A man is sleeping on a 5th Avenue sidewalk and as people pass, only the children seem to see him.
    Do only the children see him? NYC, NY – circa 2018
  • A Harlem Neighborhood photographed from a moving Metro North Train - circa 1985
    “Harlem Neighborhood” – circa 1985.
  • Frank and Jennifer Blackwell standing on RT 66, in the middle of the road, in front ofg a RT66 road sign.
    On a cross country road trip 2014
  • On my way back from Akureyri, in a snowstorm, on my way to the airport to meet my friends in Germany, to fly to Spain, I stopped in 60 MPH winds, to take this picture.
  • A woman in a chair in a darkened room, lit by one window with bright sunlight that casts her shadow on a distant wall
    I took this photograph in my studio just a few minutes after signing the lease. The light is from a window.
  • Black and White portrait of a platinum blond women in a photography studio
    Alexandria – circa 1996
  • A photograph of a Venice Canal at night lit by the running lights of a water taxi.
    I took this shot in Venice, Italy at 3 AM. There was no light at first, but as a water taxi approached with its green running lights, the scene lit beautifully for a moment.

Photography Portfolios

A Harlem Neighborhood photographed from a moving Metro North Train - circa 1985

My Street Portfolio

49 Photos
Two girls playing on the other side of a window. The younger one seated in her chair with a hand on the glass, the other with her face squished against the window.

My Portrait Portfolio

37 Photos

My Travel Portfolio

19 Photos

My Theatrical Portfolio

12 Photos

My Nature and Wildlife Portfolio

28 Photos
Wild horses in Monument Valley, Utah

My Landscape Portfolio

33 Photos
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