Author: Harry Bartlett

Al

This is a yearbook senior pic I took of a good friend at Phillips Academy Andover. It’s a double exposure with a 4 x 5 large-format camera and was taken in the basement of the Pot Pourri yearbook room which was in an old building originally the cafeteria. We were told the closets were where they stored food before refrigeration so we stashed our beer there. I’m not sure I meant to take a double exposure, I probably just exposed the Plus X film twice without knowing it which was the fun part of photography, the surprises that happened. Al chose a quote from the Velvet Underground song Beginning to See the Light which was popular back then.

Casey Blues

Casey plays the blues… Andover-Exeter weekend probably 1979. Casey was an inspired young lad – staring intently at a nerf football maybe wondering why he was wearing a coat and tie with a school flag at the big game. Not a jock by any means nor a rah rah go big blue cheerleader, more intellectual and very funny and smart. He wrote a poem called ‘Playing those Blues in D’ that I still remember. Here he’s playing the harmonica – maybe a Hohner D harp.