Member’s Gallery: (In Person) (Prints) 65 Years of Making Images with Alan Goldstein

This presentation is a little different from the usual.  It is a curated collection of eighteen of the thousands of images Alan has created over the time he has been engaged in photography. Creation years range from 1960 to 2025, and the source media ranges from drugstore prints to Polaroids to slides to digital images. In this presentation, he includes the year made, the location, and the type/brand/model of his camera.       

Alan’s interest in photography was encouraged in ninth grade by a science teacher who taught him the art of film developing.  At that time, he was using a Kodak Brownie. In college and working as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, he used a Polaroid Type 103 for photos since it made instant, crisp pictures.  But encouraged by a classmate and photographer, Alan got access to the college’s darkroom, and processed Tri-X each time he had a news event or other photo request. His camera was a Russian-made TTL model T-32.  His high school girlfriend had a Nikon SLR, and that became Alan’s Holy Grail.  However, financial considerations dictated that Alan’s first true SLR was a Minolta SRT-101. Later, he upgraded to a Minolta X700. In 2003.  Alan’s brother-in-law was getting married, and Alan was the photographer.  An acquaintance who was a Nikon rep loaned Alan a D100.   It was love at first click!  Since then, Alan has had a D100, D200, D300, D800, D810, and for the past eight years, D850. A member of NVPS for the past 13 years, Alan still considers himself more of a photojournalist than an art photographer.