Category Archives: Portraits in places

Audrey Niffenegger at Ragdale

I feel a little sheepish about the locations I chose for portraits of  the author of the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger.  Ragdale (http://www.ragdale.org) is the former summer estate of Howard Van Doren Shaw, a prominent architect active during the Arts and Crafts period at the turn of the last century.  It’s one beautiful place – now an artists’ retreat – in Lake Forest, Illinois.  Here’s David Ettinger, assistant extraordinaire, on departure:

David at Ragdale

I liked the trees.

At the head of Ragdale's Prairie Trail

At the head of Ragdale's Prairie Trail

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Graffiti and Grub and Grace

I think it’s safe to say that LaDonna Redmond was having a bad day.  In the middle of move, she headed to her business – an organic farm stand –  (http://www.graffitiandgrub.com) and found that her electricity had been mistakenly cut off by the power company.  Twelve people were at her door, eager to work.  That I’d just shown up to photograph her for Time magazine would, for any average person, be the frosting on one evil cake.  Undeterred, she worked the phone, set up shop out front, changed clothes, put on makeup and made it happen.  Amazing.  An outtake from the September 21 issue:

LaDonna Redmond

Another outtake, but similar to the one the magazine ran in their Table of Contents

. at Graffiti and Grub, an organic farm stand