Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement.  Some are of the “that’s me and we were doing this” type of stories from Jamie’s friends. Some are the “I never met Jamie but this was taken on my birthday and it means a lot to me. And some are just stunningly moving one of a kind stories.

  • From Madeleine on 10-23-94

    I clicked on the wrong date.
    I was born on this day. Not tomorrow.

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  • From Madeleine on 10-24-94

    I was born on this day.
    I don’t remember it though.

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  • From Tito on 10-25-97

    I hope Jamie knew that his vision wasnt what he could see in the future, but what we looking at his photos could see in the past. His great life.

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  • From Tito on 01-08-97

    Mine too. Thanks Jamie

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  • From Susana Rojas on 01-16-86

    I was born no this day!

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  • From Reda SAKHI on 07-30-88

    It’s amazing ! thinking the same thing and come here to see the photo taken on our birthdate 🙂

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  • From Anna Kabutey on 05-29-80

    This is the day I was born and as I can see it was a beautiful sunny day. What a great picture

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  • From Mike Lang on 10-21-97

    This date was my 17th Birthday…..it gives me pain to think about the fact that not even 5 days later the photographer Jamie Livingston passed away……I’m grateful that he took up this project and memories from theses pics flood in and leave me with emotions I haven’t felt in years…….Thank You Jamie Livingston for taking these Polaroids and Thank You Hugh Crawford for sharing Jamie’s Work and Memories

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  • From Fredy Pabon on 06-18-90

    I was born on this day…27 years later I have a passion for baseball and am a published author, but funny enough last year on my birthday I purchased my first Polaroid camera…

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  • From Nick Thomas on 09-09-88

    this is the day i was born.

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  • From jmholic on 02-08-96

    Email me those born on this day: jmunoz43@uic.edu

    We should definitely celebrate our 21st birthdays together!

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  • From jmholic on 02-09-96

    Happy early 21st birthday to the two of you. Mine is the day before 😀

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  • From Moxy Witter on 05-24-79

    My theatre friends and I would all lay around on each other like this. Some of my fondest memories <3

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  • From Ricardo on 04-10-90

    I too was born on this day.

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  • From Brittany Hanners on 07-02-90

    The day I was born 🙂 how very beautiful this whole collection is. Thank you for continuing your friends legacy by sharing.

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  • From M. on 03-22-86

    Ed Koch, was New York city’s mayor from 1978 through 1989. A period of change for the LGBT movement, including the beginning and some of the worst years of the AIDS crisis. Kotch died February 1, 2013, of congestive heart failure.

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  • From Frankie on 05-10-94

    I remember the eclipse. I was in 5th grade And I remember we couldn’t go out for recess because they were afraid we were going to stare at the sun. I just remember looking out of the window and remembering how dark it had gotten.

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  • From Marjie on 03-21-86

    This was the day my youngest child was born! Curiously enough, she had a passion for photography when she was younger. She even graduated college from a photography institute. I love this photo Jamie Livingston took. It just seems so apropos, for her!

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  • From Amber Thompsen on 03-08-89

    This is my birthday also, I agree kinda a creepy one compared to all the others around the same day! I wonder what happened this day that quite a big bandage.

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  • From Katrina on 08-16-95

    The day I was born. ❤

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  • From Mike_staks on 02-22-90

    The day i was born

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  • From Rick Maisonneuve on 06-19-90

    My wedding day, in North Bay, Ontario, Canada !

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  • From Soph on 11-27-96

    It’s so weird to think that on this date on the other side of the world I was being born, that as I was coming into this world this man like millions of others were living a different life. When I was little I thought the world started when I did, mum and dad, my whole world didn’t exist until I did. I still catch myself being amazed of this fact, and this image is oddly proof of that.

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  • From Shaneen on 02-03-87

    The day I was born.

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  • From Jess on 06-08-97

    This was the day I was born, my birthday, my family came from Brazil and I grew up going to airports every year to see my family, it’s funny he’s at an airport the day and year I was born

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  • From Arthur Carlson on 08-02-81

    Sunday softball

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  • From Arthur Carlson on 02-09-80

    Charles Moore was a mad skier!

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  • From Arthur Carlson on 03-10-80

    Friendly Mike! (R.I.P.) Jamie gave him that name…

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  • From Arthur Carlson on 07-21-80

    Thats me!

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  • From Jason on 08-24-84

    me too!

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  • From Laci on 10-25-97

    You are an amazing man you might not be alive today but in my heart you are i wish you could be here with us(And your amazing photography skills)

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  • From Ruby on 07-06-97

    My parents wedding day

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  • From Ruby on 12-10-90

    Ten years before i was born

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  • From Natasha Wise on 07-10-97

    I was born on this day 🙂 its such a beautiful picture. I wish i could have known jamie i feel like i already do

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  • From Kirill on 03-21-84

    Я, родился в этот день, так интересно посмотреть было это фото, даже немного нервничал пока искал его 🙂
    Спасибо, Jamie!

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  • From Monet on 10-10-87

    The day and year I was born. 🎈

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  • From Haven on 03-27-94

    This is the day I was born!

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  • From Oleg on 07-25-80

    +1

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  • From PoeticSilence on 06-27-92

    I was born 🙂

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    • From Olette on 06-27-92

      I was born this day too!!! And I also own a black acoustic guitar… I wonder who this band is…

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  • From KelleyBee on 09-20-97

    My husband and I were married this day. It was a rainy day in SW PA, but the wedding, although small, was beautiful. Even more importantly, the marriage has been beautiful. We now have 7 kids, two biological, 5 adopted. It’s been a great two decades with my husband and I look forward to more wonderful decades ahead,

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  • From KelleyBee on 01-08-97

    Charlie’s Angels, wow! They are from a couple decades before this shot.

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  • From Quentin Lannes on 05-10-89

    My birthday, in Normandy (France)

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  • From Jay wiggins on 12-12-90

    My birthday! I’ve got my own magic 8 ball

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  • From Beth on 01-05-82

    “Big Noise”

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  • From Maddy on 10-22-97

    This was the day I was born. Crazy seeing that on such an awful day for some, it can also be an amazing day for others.. beautiful pictures.

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    • From Giobani Herrera on 10-22-97

      Wow! I was also born on October 22nd. To be honest, I’ve never met anyone in person with the same birthday as me.

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  • From EmpiricalLove on 08-18-96

    Wow! I can’t believe this photo was taken on a lake as well. This date was my 18th birthday. I had just graduated high school a few months before. We spent the entire day out at Folsom Lake in Northern California. I remember taking a paddle boat out and singing “Brown Eyed Girl” for way, way too long. I got the worst sunburn of my life that day. It is an immensely perfect memory.

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  • From Jack Cole Sue Calhoun on 02-25-83

    This is the day my son was born. He committed suicide in 2013. I love that this photo shows people having fun.

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  • From Kate Delucia on 09-22-93

    This was taken on my birthday I’m now 23!!very interesting

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  • From Lauren Hernandez on 06-28-93

    This is my birthday, too. I’m so glad to see that this was a good day for him!

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  • From Dylan Gordon on 01-19-87

    This is my birthday … interesting

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