Thirty Years Ago
A letter from Rob Rusk reminds me of bright years in San Francisco and Sonoma in the mid-1970s: a period brilliantly recorded in Alastair Johnston’s Zephyrus Image: a Bibliography. During those years almost everything of interest was photographed by Rob. Now, ill, he has lived for many years in Mississippi doing shit jobs to scrape by, without money even to print his work. He enclosed a few photocopies of old pictures… enough to make me think that some archive, some foundation might still have the wit to see the value in funding the preservation of such material. Here are a couple of shots of Ed Dorn, one of Michael Myers after the graveyard shift, and one of me in our room on Sutter Street.
