Summer Vacation/Found Photographs

T. Adler Books, 126 pp., $30

In so many ways, this book takes me back to my grandmother’s couch on a lazy summer afternoon. Sinking deeper until finally I’m close to finishing that third bowl of ice cream, asking in amazement, “Hey! Who’s this guy? … He looks just like me!!!” Endless hours lost in a shoebox full of snapshots which revealed my relatives’ past lives, and all the fun they had on all those summer vacations, burying each other in the sand and taking more pictures in a week than they did the entire rest of the year. So slow down and enjoy some choice frames from Summer Vacation/ Found Photographs.

This article appears in June 1 • 2001.

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