George Lottermoser, imagist, photographer, graphic artist, videographer, teacher, student

Bread lines

April 17, 2013

It seems that I love to knead it, form it, cut it, bake it, photograph it, read about it, smell it, touch it, eat and taste it… with honey, with peanut butter, with humus, with tahini, with cream cheese, with salsa, with chutney, with tomato, with onion, …or all by itself. “Peace goes into the […]

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Friday: Fading Flowers

April 12, 2013

The rather spectacular flower arrangement arrived. We enjoyed it’s lively beauty for weeks. Though I did not photograph it until the end of its life – its story now complete… soon to be forgotten. “It is not what I see outside that makes my images, it is what I feel on the inside that comes […]

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Thanks for the memories: The Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Milwaukee Organizing Committee, Viet Nam, the Draft, Race Riots, Assassinations, Music, Poetry, Sit-ins, Be-ins, Marches.

April 8, 2013

In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee embarked on a long-term, multi-departmental research project focused on the Avant Garde Coffeehouse, a local landmark and center of the folk/blues revival in Wisconsin from 1962 to 1968. There were places like this in other areas, but, in Wisconsin, none as important as the Avant Garde. It presented local […]

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A wonderful dining experience… lunch with Tanya…

April 3, 2013

What more could one ask for? Warm sunlight… the company of one’s daughter… and Cafe Corazon serving delightfully fresh and flavorful food, wonderful service and and great value in a remarkable environment. This working class neighborhood also contains many memories… from my living in “Riverwest” as a student… and this being the neighborhood where my parents actually […]

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May the thaw continue… please…

March 29, 2013

with temperatures reaching 45 degrees F… walking has become pleasant… again (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

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Friday: longing for the flowers

March 22, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

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Happiness arrives in the forms of shadow play and warm, sour dough bread

March 21, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux The most successful sourdough loaf, in the last year, came from following the San Francisco Sourdough Bread recipe in America’s Bread Book; by Mary Gubser; though I did cut quantities in half. Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

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