Fri, Jul 14
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Dick Spas, The Southwest: Its Land and Its People
Photographer's Reception and Book Signing
Date, Time & Location
Jul 14, 2023, 4:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
I was born in the village of Johnson City in western New York state in the 1930s. Early on as a boy, I lived with my grandparents in Johnson City, New York. My grandfather always had his box camera with him, which I still have today. When I was 7, I went to live with my mother and step-father 100 miles west in the finger lakes region of New York state. I remember a time when we were out for a drive near Keuka Lake, we came upon a fund raising Bingo game, where I won myself a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera. Now with my own camera, I could begin my explorations of photography.
Leaving home at 16, I joined the navy and in Europe I bought an Agfa camera which I used to take a lot of pictures. After four years in the navy, my aunt and cousin Phil…