Massapequa, 2007
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Brooklyn Waterfront
So last spring I woke up crazily early on a Saturday morning, just after sunrise and walked down to Dumbo in the fog and early light, with my camera. I rarely photograph in actual New York City, I guess because the visual world of the urban environment isn't something I'm very interested in making pictures with. Perhaps it's the lack of trees.
Anyway, the pictures below are from that morning, in the muggy, Brooklyn air. I'm not sure what these pictures are for, or how to think about them with my other work, but they're something I've been thinking about, especially the angle of view looking down on things.
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Brooklyn, 2007
Brooklyn, 2007
Brooklyn, 2007
Anyway, the pictures below are from that morning, in the muggy, Brooklyn air. I'm not sure what these pictures are for, or how to think about them with my other work, but they're something I've been thinking about, especially the angle of view looking down on things.
IMAGES
Brooklyn, 2007
Brooklyn, 2007
Brooklyn, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
More Google Street View Images
Just a couple google street view images, from Houston this time, that I had sitting around. I'm working on rewriting my original thoughts about this concept, so I thought I should walk around the virtual world some more. As I go about collecting (photographing) these images, it's notable that I'm making things that seem fairly generic with respect to geography and look. Whether this speaks to a tone in my own way of looking at the world, or points to a limitation of the form (same general type of location, etc). I guess the next step is to see if I can get someone else to participate in this with me.
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Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
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Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Houston, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Mountain of Ash
These are some images I made earlier this year in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, right after the big fire that left parts of the park completely destroyed. I went in the mid afternoon with my friend Peter, and we snuck into the park, through the zone marked by the fire department (LAFD, I assume?) and hiked up the hill.
Except for the image with the iconic Griffith Park Observatory, these pictures don't have much to do with the park, or the fire itself, but rather use them as the setting for my own thoughts and fears. In retrospect, I think having just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road and far from home, the apocalypse in general was on my mind that afternoon, even in the gorgeous LA spring. Speaking to my friends Stephen and Andrew last week, Stephen called this work catastrophilia, and I can't really argue with that.
The other idea to come out of these images for me was the idea of how urban and suburban parks create strange interfaces between natural and human worlds. In particular, the idea of using arrangements of trees as windows has been something I've been pursuing this summer, shooting in a park in Long Island. More on that to come, as I start making prints from those negatives.
Thanks to Peter (other Peter) for making these scans in a pinch.
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Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Except for the image with the iconic Griffith Park Observatory, these pictures don't have much to do with the park, or the fire itself, but rather use them as the setting for my own thoughts and fears. In retrospect, I think having just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road and far from home, the apocalypse in general was on my mind that afternoon, even in the gorgeous LA spring. Speaking to my friends Stephen and Andrew last week, Stephen called this work catastrophilia, and I can't really argue with that.
The other idea to come out of these images for me was the idea of how urban and suburban parks create strange interfaces between natural and human worlds. In particular, the idea of using arrangements of trees as windows has been something I've been pursuing this summer, shooting in a park in Long Island. More on that to come, as I start making prints from those negatives.
Thanks to Peter (other Peter) for making these scans in a pinch.
IMAGES
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
Los Angeles, 2007
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