CONTACTS
CONTACTS
While digging around in my hard drive, looking for something to
slap on the back cover of my new magazine (STANDARD), I came
across a set of contacts from my trip to Mississippi and Alabama.
I thought I might post a few here, along with the corresponding
final select from each one……
AND, SPEAKING OF STANDARD…..
The final sequence and layout of the images has been decided,
the copy is written and the whole thing is going off to the designer
for final tweaking.
Stand by.
In the meantime, a few spreads, photographed from the dummy……
And, speaking of the dummy……
I edit, sequence and scale my shows and portfolios using the
Light Table feature in Aperture. It’s a swell tool.
But it’s still virtual. You never know how a book will look until
you hold it in your hands, turn the pages (and sometimes throw
it across the room in disgust). So the time-honored method of
making prints and sticking them into order in a portfolio-type
thing (a dummy) is what you have to do to make sure it’s as
right as you can make it.
WHERE THINGS START
A very interesting piece of writing by Will Steacy about the
genesis of his project: Down These Mean Streets, over on
Conscientious.
Bullet Hole, Atlantic City, 2008. © Will Steacy
Steacy takes a political stance. Many of his images appear,
on first glance, to be “standard” views. But the way they are
strung together, the basic premise of them, his insistence
on having his images taken as political statements, really
turns my crank.
The way I feel these days, that seems to be the only approach
that is modern…..to create strings of images that skewer and
slice. That love and tear apart this world we live in. That are
critical and not just more pretty pap for the masses.