Saturday, November 27, 2004
A current touring show, Diane Arbus Revelations is making the rounds, with 200 photos. It'll be here in Minneapolis in 2006, maybe it'll be in your town soon. There's a book, Diane Arbus Revelations, which I guess is the catalog for the show, which is pretty cool. Lots of interesting stuff, like collages and contact sheets. The cover photo is a double exposure of a self portrait and a NYC street scene. And the book is big. I saw it at Borders (someone thoughtfully removed the plastic wrap so it could be looked at...), one of the things that I found interesting was her daughter Doon's comments on printing her mom's photos and trying to figure out how she did them so they would look like Diane's. ooh ooh, I know what I want for Christmas.
If your an Arbus fan the biography by Patricia Bosworth is good - I've read it twice.
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We're getting our first snow. I hope we get a lot this winter. If it's winter and super cold, which it will be, we deserve a ton of snow. Somehow it makes the cold a bit more bearable. And it kind of screws things up, which is interesting. Lots of shoveling--weee!
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FYI - Been developing film: some 2002 stuff from Texas - Big Bend and some abandoned motel between Houston and Austin. I'm working through unmarked film so it's a mystery when or where it's from.
I like going through the old film, it's like little lost snippets of my life. I remember taking the pictures and with some of the stuff I'll wonder when I'll get to that roll of film that contains some moment I vaguely remember. Or better yet something I've forgotten but vividly comes back to me when I see the developed film.
I read a quote from Gary Winogrand about how he'd let his film sit for two years so he'd have some emotional distance from the images. I find it's true. If you develop your film right away, good or bad emotions can play a negative part in editing. You think so-so pics are good because you enjoyed your picture taking so much. I know, I've stared at contact sheets searching for a "winner" from times when I had a great time while taking the pictures, but there was nothing to be had. It's a drag being a photographer and the only great thing you bring back from a picture taking experience are memories.
If your an Arbus fan the biography by Patricia Bosworth is good - I've read it twice.
* * * * *
We're getting our first snow. I hope we get a lot this winter. If it's winter and super cold, which it will be, we deserve a ton of snow. Somehow it makes the cold a bit more bearable. And it kind of screws things up, which is interesting. Lots of shoveling--weee!
* * * * *
FYI - Been developing film: some 2002 stuff from Texas - Big Bend and some abandoned motel between Houston and Austin. I'm working through unmarked film so it's a mystery when or where it's from.
I like going through the old film, it's like little lost snippets of my life. I remember taking the pictures and with some of the stuff I'll wonder when I'll get to that roll of film that contains some moment I vaguely remember. Or better yet something I've forgotten but vividly comes back to me when I see the developed film.
I read a quote from Gary Winogrand about how he'd let his film sit for two years so he'd have some emotional distance from the images. I find it's true. If you develop your film right away, good or bad emotions can play a negative part in editing. You think so-so pics are good because you enjoyed your picture taking so much. I know, I've stared at contact sheets searching for a "winner" from times when I had a great time while taking the pictures, but there was nothing to be had. It's a drag being a photographer and the only great thing you bring back from a picture taking experience are memories.
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