Was fortunate enough to attend a screening of Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz in Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other at Photo London, with them and the film-making couple in attendance for a discussion and Q&A afterwards. Here, as it was all over, you can see Joel, as always, Leica in hand shooting. The film was quite moving, as were some of the comments afterwards and it was directly relevant to my project Modern Romance.
A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
Intended to see 4 or 5 shows in London on Friday but in the end I spent a lot of time at the Tate Modern and only managed to fit in the Barbican Centre afterwards.
Projector, drum string, bridge saddle, 16mm film strip, microphone, and audio.
A 3-part film installation. Click any of the 3 images above o see them all enlarged.
Out of pix so it’s back to the film archives from the 1970s with some images I don’t think I’ve posted here before.
If I recall correctly, in 1979 I bought my little brother a Pentax K-1000 for his 13th birthday and took him out shooting in the snow but failed ever to kindle the spark photography had lit for me.
Some more from the vaults. These are some film shots taken at the big anti-Viet Nam War demonstration in Washington DC in April, 1971.
Went to see a film called Instant Dreams about people chasing the dream of Polaroid Instant film in the years since its demise. Very strange film with lots of gratuitous and superfluous stock footage filling it out. Highlighted Edwin Land’s prescience about a world in which people could engage socially with images they could shoot all day long with a pocket camera no larger than a wallet – but with no sense of irony that today’s smartphones have achieved exactly that. As if to prove the point, here’s my shot of someone photographing the final frames of the credits with their iPhone.
Summer series of outdoor French films. This particular evening, Jean Renoir’s Elena et les Hommes with Ingrid Bergman, selected by her daughter, Isabella Rossellini, shown on Pier I sticking out from Riverside Park into the Hudson River, New Jersey in the background. This is a shot of the animated, psychedelic short they showed first.
Once again, I find myself without new images so I’ll be dipping into the archives again for a day or two.
More archival Tri-X scans from Highbridge:
