Walter Rabetz

In 1981, photographer, Walter Rabetz, travelled to his home town of New York City, and created a series of photographs of the bridges and tunnels leading to Manhattan, otherwise known as "the City." This group of loving photographs, composed of both portions of the bridge (or tunnel), and the environment in which it existed. By including both elements, the photographs also recorded some of the history of the boroughs, and the time. Looking at them now, we see the cars, the clothes, the stores, the people and the products of that time, some thirty-eight years ago. "Manhattan In The Distance" - both physically, and in the past.

Gene Tashoff has been a poet all his life while working in advertising. He has previously authored several works of prose. Walter Rabetz is a well known photographer with many books of his photographic work already published. Marilyn Rabetz, a nationally known color pencil artist and graphic designer has produced and published over 30 books of art, art instruction and poetry. Together they have created a delightful and thoughtful book of poetry matched with photographs.

In 1981, Walter Rabetz went off to photograph the Connecticut River Bridges. He went with his 10 year old daughter, Samantha, and the trip resulted in both a powerful bond between them, and a series of beautifully distinctive black and white images. Then, in 2013, Rabetz took the trip again with his artist wife, Marilyn. Together they took photographs of many of the same bridges. This book is a pairing of the two trips: recent color images against older black and white images. Arranged to suggest visual parallels rather than geographic accuracy, the book celebrates both the bridges and the trips.

This is an extraordinary collection of exquisite images of unusual leaves.While flowers are often so showy that they prevent us from looking at the leaves of the plant, this book reminds us that leaves are often equally beautiful and worthy of our full attention.

In 1966, photographer Walter Rabetz took a job as a math and home room teacher at Lew Wallace Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York. While there, he created a series of warm, intimate and loving photographs of the students in his home room class. This book is an elegy to them and to teaching by an exceptional photographer.

This book is a collection of photographs by the artist Walter Rabetz. they are respectful portraits of strong, resilient, brave people who have had long and productive lives. The photos were originally commissioned by West Hartford residents, Dr. and Mrs Irving Waltman in memory of Fran Waltman's parents, Rose Kramer Epstein and Julius Epstein. The collection, then titled "Long Time Residents of the Hartford Area," was presented to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford in the late 1970's