Rita knows how to handle her Marlboro men
Roy knew his 81-year old mother was hooked on the idea of artistic photomontages because he saw how they “actually accentuated her happiness!” This was
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Whatever you could do, Harold did better
Photos from the family: 4 After years of seeing a therapist, creating a retirement gift as a fine art roast became a refreshingly therapeutic way for
Stuart the hawk bearing an olive tree
For Stuart’s 70th birthday, his sister wanted to roast this hawkish, sporty orthopedic surgeon. I put a cast on the leg of a classical statue,
Ann’s 11 gifts from 11 dearly departed
Nurses are often referred to as the “burden-bearers.” No one understood this better than Ann, a nurse still reeling from widowhood and a string of
Little Flynn meets his legendary Uncle Joe
A younger brother who died at age 31 (on the left), Joe is seen toasting his nephew Flynn on his first birthday, named after the
Oprah’s favorite things: books and spaniels
The Spaniel photo purse took shape when I decided to combine two of Oprah’s greatest passions – Solomon, her black Cocker Spaniel and books –
Curtis has been to helm and back
For Curtis’s 70th birthday, his daughter commissions a photomontage “memory portrait” of his entire life. A loving marriage, soaring career (literally, given the private jet
Rita still recalls Albert’s kiss, circa 1954
When Roy commissioned me to compose a 55th anniversary photo gift for his parents Albert and Rita, he definitely wanted a story to fit the
Charlie dreamed of covering the 1955 World Series
Total images: 11 Charlie R will watch any sport on TV if there’s no baseball or hockey. But deep down his daughter knows he would
A baby activist and a mother dreaming of being a revolutionary
When Vitaly was about 4 years old, he disappeared. His mother Eva Ovseyvena could not find him anywhere. She raised a big panic and half
One stumble with nitro-glycerin, and it’s dasvidanya for Vitaly
Total images: 10 This laboratory scene was completely created from scratch; all I had was a head shot of the subject, Vitaly G. The lab
‘Some day you will talk to anybody from wherever you want.’
Total images: 7 The war ended. Summer of 1945, Lyuba visited her father who was stationed in Silesia, and he was demobilized and they all