All things must pass, but the retirement of Woody Durham is particularly hard to take.
Category: A Thousand Words
Jeff’s Campus Confectionary, 1966
As I look back on the Franklin Street of my boyhood and recall the shops on the 100 block, I see faces – faces of longtime personalities who anchored those businesses.
Lennie and Pete on WCOM
Two of my childhood heroes, UNC basketball legends Lennie Rosenbluth and Pete Brennan, were in town last week.
Old Doll, 1978
As a Seasoned Citizen, I’ve been thinking a lot these days about de-cluttering.
The Biggest “Pothole”
OK, so I got beat. Soundly too.
Aunt Roxie, 1940
Several years ago, when I asked my photography students to bring to class a single meaningful family snapshot, Kafi Robinson, then a senior journalism major from Oxford, turned in a photo of her great grandmother, “Aunt Roxie.”
Dean Smith, John Lotz, Larry Brown, 1965
Looking at my early photos from The Daily Tar Heel, it’s a wonder they kept me on.
Lillie Pratt turning 83
A Thousand Words By Jock Lauterer Each spring, with the daffodils comes a Lillie. Lillie Mozelle Pratt, that is. It just wouldn’t be spring on Franklin Street without “the last of the flower ladies,†as Lillie calls herself. I began buying February daffodils from “Miz Pratt†back in 1966, so her claim rings true. She…
Out walkin’ Roy Williams
A Thousand Words By Jock Lauterer Newlyweds Stefany (who goes by “the Rockâ€) Picquet, left, and Emily Glover, right, shared this happy moment with one of my talented student photographers, Bess Trotter: Emily, a school counselor at Mary Scroggs Elementary School in Chapel Hill, laughs as Rock, a much-beloved barista at the Franklin Street Starbucks,…
Atwater Farm, July 1, 1939
‘‘For me, documentary photography is less a matter of subject and more a matter of approach,†wrote Dorothea Lange.
Valentines at CHHS, 1963
Before yr hmbl svt knew better than to nuke everything with his flash, we made this photograph of the 1963 CHHS Sweetheart Court for the school newspaper.
Otter Patrol, 1961
In every boy’s life, there should be a moment like this.
Rock mason James Blacknell Jr., 1984
Every child who ever romped on the old stone walls on campus should thank this man. When I photographed 80-year-old James Blacknell Jr. in 1984, he’d been laying rock at UNC for 66 years.
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dorms 1967
Surely, anyone who has been on the UNC campus recently surely has marveled at the giant expanse of protective plastic sheeting completely covering Battle-Vance-Pettigrew halls as workers renovate the roof and exterior of those administrative buildings.
Jaws 2011
You do not want to run over and into “JAWSâ€: an alignment-eating trench four feet long, two feet wide and four inches deep.