© Frank H. Jump
Frank H. Jump
Lady Deborah Moody House – Willy & Frank Jump Portrait Shoot for Netherlands National Archive
taken by assistant to photographer Richard Koek (van Heineken)
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
For more historical context on Gravesend- see Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY.
Mimi Appears – Artist’s Print – Frank H. Jump – Then Disappears April 23, 2012
Mimi Appears 2003 - black & white gelatin print © Frank H. Jump
This is the first day I saw our cat Mimi. Vincenzo called her “a scrawnty thing.” I developed the negative and created this print while completing my first Masters degree in Education at Brooklyn College in 2003. Sadly, Mimi died rather quickly from liver failure on April 23, 2012.
Portrait of Frank Jump taken by Joe Teti – ACT-UP 1988
© Frank H. Jump
Joe Teti took a series of pictures of me on his roof a week before he died in his new apartment on Bank Street in Greenwich Village. The night he died, he said goodbye to me and apologized for not letting me stay longer. I said, “OK Joe, you have plans tonight. That’s cool.” He had tears in his eyes. As I was leaving a buddy of his was walking in. Apparently they shot up together and Joe died of an overdose. He had found out that week that his T-Cells were almost non-existent and his liver was failing. That year, I lost over 250 friends and acquaintances (ballpark figure). Joe Teti- I think of you often.
