Comments on: A Little Yin, A Little Yang http://www.photoinduced.com/960/a-little-yin-a-little-yang/ The first stop in your photographic life. Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Fred Bonilla http://www.photoinduced.com/960/a-little-yin-a-little-yang/comment-page-1/#comment-169101 Fred Bonilla Tue, 13 May 2008 14:58:47 +0000 http://www.photoinduced.com/archives/960#comment-169101 Years ago, my good friend Kathie and I saw the Smithsonian exhibit of \”The Americans\” and was just blown away! His work is one of the reasons I went into this field and to this day is one of the best photography books of the 20th Century. He captured a unique time in America in a style imitated to this day.

When I started at K&M almost 2 years ago, I was told that the owners were very good friends, and a few days later, he came into the store with Itzek,
the senior \”K\” of K&M. I was momentarily stunned and at a loss for words but he looked at me as to say \”what are ya, mute or something?\”. Suddenly, he wasn\’t the mysterious J.D. Salinger of photography but a kind yet grumpy old man. I relaxed and we spoke for a while about his work but he was
more concerned about where you can still get a good bagel in New York City.
(Our conclusion was that Ess-A Bagel & H&H are the last bastions of decent bagelry in Metropolis…).

I seen and spoken to him a few times in the last year or so and found him to be a complex soul, and a wonderful article in May\’s Vanity Fair (the one before
Miley…..) only confirmed to me the many facets of the man. I\’m just so glad that I was able to speak to him and tell him that how groundbreaking and influential \”The Americans \” was to me and so many others. And that he sorta
said \”Thank You\”. (I think…)

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