My Father at 90

My Father at 90

Apr 3, 2013 | Blog

Since I am working this week on my Mother’s 90th birthday book, thought I would add a link to my Father’s 90th birthday book which I made 3 1/2 years ago for him.  This is a blurb.com book  and can be found on their website at http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1083784-photographs-of-duane-neuhauser.   The photograph on the front cover is one of my all time favorite photographs of my Dad, even at two, he was wearing a hat.  The book contains over 160 photographs of him from the earliest baby photographs to the age of 90.  It is a wonderful gift to have both parents live to this ripe old age and to sit with them as they look through the old photographs.  I think this is one of the reasons that I have been in love with photography since an early age:  a rich family history of images makes all the difference.

I remember his birthday party as if it were yesterday.  At one point I was dancing with him, the disco light was spinning (he wanted a disco light and I am so glad we had it) and I thought it was the perfect moment.  I was worried because the book had just come out and I was projecting all of the images from the book at the party.  I was worried because the book contained some images of him dressed in women’s clothing which he liked to do.  I gave him the book and said I hope you don’t mind me projecting all the images that are contained in it.  He said the most wonderful to me.  He said, “I am not ashamed of anything I have done so far in my life.  Feel free to project away and if people are offended they should not be here.”  Click on the link above to see the enire book.  it is so worth looking at.  View Photographs of Duane Neuhauser by by Janet Neuhauser

My Mother turns 90

My Mother turns 90

Apr 3, 2013 | Blog

I am working on a blurb book this week for my Mother who turns 90 in May.  It is a book of photographs of only her and all about her. This book  is not a eulogy;  she is not dead but very much alive.   She has always hated to have her picture taken and the only time anyone could get a good one is when she was unaware of the photographer.  I have been searching far and wide for photographs of her.  There seem to be whole periods  of her life when she was not photographed.  My Father turned 90 three and a half years ago, and I did a book for him.   It was amazing how many images were made of him;  he loved to be photographed and his mother, Bertha Neuhauser was a serious amateur photographer.  I had too many photographs of Dad to fit in a 160 page book.  On the other hand, my Mother was the daughter of an itinerant logger in Western Washington. The family moved each year (sometimes twice a year)  and  did not seem to place that much importance on pictures of themselves.  Still the book will be a story of a life well-lived, and after she met my father, it looks like a life with someone with whom she was in love.  Who could ask for more?  The photographs featured here are from the first page of the book:  thumbnails of her grandparents, parents, siblings, her wedding day, then pregnant with her fourth child (that would be me), reading to the other three.  Here’s to my Mother and to blurb.com  (and other self publishing programs) who give us an easy way to organize and edit family photographs.  Please go to blurb and take a look at the book:  https://www.blurb.com/b/4238956-photographs-of-helen-neuhauser

erView Photographs of Helen Neuhauser by Janet Neuhauser