Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement. ย 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 Ellen Garner on 08-13-86

    This was the day I was born!

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  • From Britt on 11-26-90

    Mine too!! What an awesome photo

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  • From Britt on 11-27-90

    Me five then ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  • From Rowanne on 05-25-97

    My older brother was born on this day! Glad to know something so fun looking was happening at the time haha!

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  • From Rowanne on 02-07-97

    I love this one!

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  • From Cheri-Ann Leon on 07-30-84

    Perhaps on the day I was born, he was watching someone do something interesting,

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  • From Tori Webb on 12-13-94

    This was also the day I was born!
    Some amazing work.
    Glad people can appreciate these.

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-97

    I was celebrating my 10th birthday at my grandparents..the news came on we all stopped ,stared at the t.v. as it announced princess Diana had died in a crash.

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-96

    9 years old and was swimming like a fish

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-95

    8 years today

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-93

    At 6 years old it indeed was easy street

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-92

    5 years old…i would have wanted the pony

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-90

    I was probably doing the same thing at 3 years old too

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-88

    Today is my very first birthday.๐ŸŽ‚ happy birthday

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  • From Alyssa Licon on 08-30-87

    I was born 8/30/1987 around 4pm on a Sunday summer afternoon. 5pnds 2 ounces

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  • From Angel on 09-08-90

    This is my birthday, my brother and I were born 7 years and a day apart. Our mother went into labor on his birthday (9/7/1990) but put off going to the hospital until after his birthday celebrations were over. I think it’s beautiful that it seems as though a celebration was being had on the day of my birth.

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  • From Jesus on 01-21-94

    Day I was born

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  • From Rubi Jansen on 01-14-97

    A special somebody was born today โค๏ธ

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  • From Jesus Manzano jr on 03-03-85

    I was born on this day

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  • From Gidget on 08-07-97

    There is no 8-8-97!!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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  • From Jeff Preiss on 02-14-82

    We were all showing Warren our recent work here. The encouragement I received on this day, from this group is what allowed me to continue on.

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  • From Jeff Preiss on 08-23-81

    A great editor I’ve worked with for years, Micheal Saia, invited me to work from his country house in Germantown a few summers back. I took the train Rhinecliff and Rebecca (Quaytman) who was teaching at Bard MFA then, picked me up to drive the rest of the way. Our GPS course looked strangely familiar and I asked her: Isn’t this the way we used to go to the pond? (or “The Pond” as it became an official name: A magically perfect place hidden in an apple orchard owned by some benevolent soul who allowed public swimming) we spent seemingly all of summer ’81 there… never not naked.
    We arrived at Michael’s and were wisked off immediately for drinks on the deck overlooking… a pond.
    it seemed wishful that the site of such mythic memories would now be under the care of such a great guy. I marched down and took a single phone photo from a familiar vantage… then compared it to this PotD. both photos were taken from the identical angel. Every element of the landscape looked completely unchanged. This morning I showed Michael how consistently The Pond appears in Jamie’s pictures from June through August ’81 and compelled him to open it for public naked swimming.

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  • From Marilyn L Jones, MA on 06-21-90

    The day my mother was discovered dead. She committed suicide at age 73 after having attempted to do so since she was 16 years old. We were happy she was finally at peace.

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  • From Marilyn L Jones, MA on 06-28-90

    My 40th birthday. My brother and sister-in-law threw me a big party with friends from my brother’s band. It was one week after my mother committed suicide and we had the party anyway. My bridge to the future?

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  • From Monica on 12-01-79

    The day I was born ๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿ˜

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  • From Jeff Preiss on 05-17-80

    The Red Grooms photo booth at a benifit fot The Collective for Living Cinema

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  • From Jeff Preiss on 05-15-80

    This is outside The Bleecker Street Cinema were I worked at the time. Don’t know what became of the duling sx-70 from my perspective alas.

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  • From Shota on 08-21-95

    I was also born on this day….

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  • From Jeff Preiss on 12-13-79

    Dropping off the day’s take from The Bleecker Street Cinema.

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  • From Pargi bharadhwaj on 01-30-91

    I was born on this day shadnagar,India

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  • From Colin on 08-18-97

    I was born as well on this day. It’s a great picture and in some ways kind of fits how my life has been so far.

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  • From Shadi on 01-01-97

    My birthday

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  • From Dionne on 08-12-97

    I was born on this exact day, month and year

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  • From Gino Honig on 12-27-83

    I was born. I love batman.

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  • From James Baua on 09-23-97

    I was born on this day. I also take pictures but, different type of pictures. Hi to all people who were born on this day too. Nice to meet you ๐Ÿ˜€. I’m James Baua

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  • From Rebecca McKenzie on 07-05-97

    This picture was taken 2 years before I was born.

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  • From Lauren Mills on 10-19-93

    The day my baby brother was born โ™ก

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  • From Johnathan on 09-06-93

    Birthday ๐Ÿ™‚

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  • From Angel on 09-24-92

    My birthday ๐Ÿ’–

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  • From Abel on 03-13-97

    Mฤƒ gรขndeam cฤƒ o sฤƒ vii aici

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  • From Abel on 08-01-97

    20.. La multi ani I.!

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  • From Kay on 09-26-93

    This is my birthday photo ๐Ÿ™‚ born in Cold Lake Alberta Canada.

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  • From Sam on 07-20-96

    21 years ago, I was born on this day. Fitting photo, i love the beach.

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  • From AgnesDJ on 08-31-97

    Born on this day…and I actually have a similar newspaper headlining her death. I sometimes feel like I have a connection with her, even though I was born several hours before her death and on the other side of the world.

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  • From Krishnarag on 09-14-96

    I was born that day…

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  • From Scott Lithgow on 06-05-79

    Sometime over the next few weeks, Jamie got Stacy to cut my hair.
    He had a cool rat’s tail, I just had it chopped back, like hers.

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  • From Scott Lithgow on 10-25-97

    I don’t remember the day Jamie died, but I remember the day I learned he had died. We were walking through the park behind the NY public library, and Tal was telling me about how Chris had taken a year off to be with Jamie, and I suddenly realized. Babette and the boys were there. I was so sad for all the Christmas cards I never wrote, the moped races we never had; the snide remarks and fancy hats. I’m so happy he left us this.

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  • From Juan on 09-12-96

    I was born that day…

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  • From Sanchi on 08-01-97

    Me too!!

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  • From Daragh king on 06-08-96

    Just watched a Facebook video of Jamie and was so excited to see my birthday photo! This is it the day I was born. Amazing idea

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