This is the first photograph my mother ever took, a portrait of her grand parents taken in 1941, when she was 5 years old...


first portrait. 1941


... and this is the first photograph I ever took, a portrait of my parents taken in 1962, when I was 3 years old...

first portrait. 1962


I am certain the camera I used for my photo was a Kodak Brownie. I wish I knew what camera was used for my Mom's photograph. I love the vague similarity in these shots taken twenty years apart. The child's eye view is so evident.