Coffee Ennui - Paperback

by Philip Philo Kassner (Author)

Sixty years of photography rolled into 140 pages. My journey from Green Bay, WI 1955 right up to a last minute discovery made two days prior to publication in 2016. The photos span the Milwaukee underground scene from 1967- 1999 and beyond; Cold War Germany, 1970 and various excursion to NY including the Chelsea Hotel. You are going to enjoy the images and the accompanying text... you're going to love. Each photo has a story behind it, many humorous but all compelling and human.

Author Biography

As I get older I find myself embracing the new technology. In 2009 I published a book documenting the "rock-a-billy" scene at Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall. The lighting inside was quite a challenge, just a few dim, red lights. To use a flash would have been out of the question. I needed to purchase a very sensitive camera. Due to the low-level lighting conditions the photographs looked better when simply converted to black and white. My photos had the look of Tri-X film and many viewers of the photography did not place it as recent. Had I spent considerable time with the images using photographic software, I perhaps could have gotten a few usable color images. In general I do not believe in more than a smidgen of photographic enhancement.