Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images: Featured Galleries and Collections

Serendipity collection 撒散图片库

th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:44:25 GMT

A collection of chance encounters, accidents, and discoveries. A couple of these pictures are arranged ("staged"), otherwise things were left alone and just slightly recontextualized. Against usual (somewhat harried) practice, with these photographs I did pay a bit more attention to exposure and composition.

Taken in the following locations:
Norwich, upstate New York.
New York City, Battery Park.
San Francisco.
Beijing, China.
Sanya, Hainan Island, China.
Bar Harbor, Maine.
Rockland, Massachussetts.
Ithaca, upstate New York.
Paris, France.
Sergiev Posad, Russia.
Marburg, Germany.

In contrast to my other collections and galleries, this collection is not serialized or homogeneous in any way. Cameras and gear differ considerably, from medium format to digital.

Thomas H. Hahn, Ithaca, NY

Serendipity collection II (Monochromes)

th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:43:30 GMT

A small collection of b/w (monochrome) photographs, taken over a considerable period of time, with very different equipment, such as Hasselblad, Nikon film and Nikon digital, the Ricoh GRD2 and Olympus.

The play with light and shadows is what makes the development of photographs in black and white so exciting.

For portraits and people shots in b/w please visit http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p193233205/ .

Thomas H. Hahn
Ithaca, NY

Coney Island, Brooklyn (Leica M9)

th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:15:24 GMT

Images of Coney island from December 30, 2011. It was a ridiculously mild day, with plenty of folks out and about. Dominant languages were Russian and English, in that order.

Coney Island is world-famous for its beaches and amusement parks, three of which are on the National Register of Heritage Sites. It is also home to the NY Aquarium. An easy destination these days, CI has undergone many changes in the past couple of decades. It is (yet again) slated for a major rezoning battle, and - curiously - is the site of one of only two gated housing communities in NYC (Sea Gate).

All pictures taken with the Leica M9 and 35 'Cron ASPH. The center weighted light measurement of the Leica helped with the contre-jour captures, to a degree. It was a bit of a test regarding DR - my Fuji S5 or the Sony A900 probably would have done a bit better. However, the 35 ASPH lens being what it is, there is exceedingly fine detail in these files, the texturing of each plank of the boardwalk is highly pronounced for example.

Thomas H. Hahn
Ithaca, NY

Encounters in Tibet

th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:01:00 GMT

While on a trip to Tibet with my good Japanese friend Susumu back in May 1986, we went to explore various areas in and around Lhasa. We used Leica and two Nikon F3, loaded with Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film. After being stowed away for 20 years, the material has survived pretty well, with authentic color rendition and crisp detail.

Here is a gallery of more or less random photographs of Tibetans in Lhasa and other locations of central Tibet. Many of them are pilgrims or monks; others, such as in image 23, are Kampas, a tough folk hailing mostly from western Sichuan province.

Some of the photographs were published in German magazines in 1987.

Scanned and uploaded September 5, 2006.

Thomas H. Hahn, Ithaca, NY