Barry Friedman is the world’s foremost authority on antique Indian blankets, and a former Hollywood comedy writer. Barry published his book “Chasing Rainbows: Collecting American Indian Trade & Camp Blankets” in 2002 and hired me to do the photography and graphic design for his new book on the subject. We’ve had a great time doing this project and if we ever stop laughing long enough to turn over the files to the printer “Still Chasing Rainbows” will be published in fall 2011.
These images are two of the 400 or so images I have photographed for this coming book. The ideal shooting situation
was to shoot these blankets laying flat versus hanging them on a wall. The camera was placed well above, and shot
tethered using large softboxes.