Hi Harry, "to the moon." Indeed!
IDTC is positioned well, HIV and a number of others next.
I'm in Montana for awhile. Life's a laptop... you can quote that to Bartlett's.
Barbara Morgan (a referring url for lurkers) pathfinder.com@@z04;c6PyNAIAQH2x/photo/gallery/arts/morgan/morgan.htm
Howard Schatz (a referring url for lurkers)http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/inet-non/homelessness/300about.html
People photographers, the other side of life, dance. Good work, very glad to see you're active in appreciating photography.
In 1996 I had a show in NYC also. It consisted of a cross country study in selenium toned black and white 20X24" prints. It was an attempt to show the length of America without the artist (me) intervening in the selection of what was shown. I tried to get myself out of the cultural interpretation process. So I borrowed from NASA exploration techniques, by forcing each 'view' to comply with a formula of stopping and 'reporting' at 50 mile intervals from coast to coast. I didn't allow myself to get involved with the surroundings, just shoot what each 50 mile position revealed with a wide field lens... weather, time of day, content, exposure had to be dealt with as able. No cropping, just a consistent reporting at each 50 mile stop.
Oddly enough, the gamble paid off well. Some very unexpected results, never knew where the next 50 would land me. Once in a farmers pig field, another at a road sign "Watch for Falling Rocks," another time smack at the top of an interstate crossing through Kansas City at rush hour. I pulled over with trucks and traffic roaring by, the city lit up with a brilliant sunset... and a state trooper who look very ticked off. With lights flashing, me setting up under the dark cloth, he asked what "the **^%$%#@ are you doing up here?" So I explained the 50 mile project which had taken me from the west coast to this spot and time. He thought about it a moment, then said "that's one hell of a story, proceed with your work, then get out of here." He routed traffic until I got the shot and left to 50 miles further east. |
