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ALLEN HESS PHOTOGRAHY

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Christmas Cards

In 1972 my friend Ron asked me to photograph him and his wife for their Christmas card and if I wished, he would photograph mine. So being a photography graduate student, I thought that I should have a gimmick. That turned out to be a plastic Santa Claus suit from Toys-R-Us for $3.27! The next year I did it again and then the next and the next . . . The themes are autobiographical, reflecting some pertinent event each year.

The first photos were 6x6cm medium format film. By 1988 the photo processors would only make Christmas cards from 35mm film. In the mid ’90s I was taking classes in digital photography and desktop publishing at Rochester Institute of Technology. Digital print on demand was in its infancy and I created my first digital card in 1997. From then on I have created the cards in Photoshop and printed them myself. Twenty Twenty-Two marks fifty years of cards.

  • 1972 Chicago
  • 1973 Chicago
  • 1974 Dayton, Ohio
  • 1975 Marietta, Ohio
  • 1976 New Orleans
  • 1977 New Orleans
  • 1978 New York City
  • 1979 Princeton, New Jersey
  • 1980 Princeton, New Jersey
  • 1981 Jamaica Plain, Mass.
  • 1982 Jamaica Plain, Mass.
  • 1983 Jamaica Plain, Mass.
  • 1984 Dorchester, Mass.
  • 1985 New Orleans
  • 1986 Dorchester, Mass.
  • 1987 Dorchester, Mass.
  • 1988 Dorchester, Mass.
  • 1989 Dorchester, Mass.
  • 1990 Pittsford, New York
  • 1991 Linwood, New York
  • 1992 Pittsford, New York
  • 1993 Pittsford, New York
  • 1994 Pittsford, New York
  • 1995 Edgard, Louisiana
  • 1996 Pittsford, New York
  • 1997 Logan, Indiana
  • 1998 Bilbao, Spain
  • 1999 Pittsford, New York
  • 2000 Pittsford, New York
  • 2001 Carnegie Mellon Univ.
  • 2002 Pittsford, New York
  • 2003 Pittsford, New York
  • 2004 Cape Canaveral, Florida
  • 2005 Cape Canaveral, Florida
  • 2006 New Orleans
  • 2007 Philadelphia
  • 2008 Pittsford, New York
  • 2009 Pittsford, New York
  • 2010 Burkes Pass, New Zealand
  • 2011 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • 2012 Philadelphia / Bethlehem
  • 2013 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • 2014 Poland / South Africa
  • 2015 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • 2016 England
  • 2018 Corfe Castle Station, England
  • 2019 New York, New Zealand
  • 2020 Bethlehem, Penn.
  • 2021 Athens, Ohio
  • Allen Hess 2022 Christmas Card
    2022 Bethlehem, Penn

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