Bookcase and Photographs

[Maris]

Bookcase and Photographs

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.4cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f5.6 lens.

The negative was exposed as a test for an old batch of Fomapan 100. The bookcase and photographs were handy as a subject featuring a variety of tones and fine details.

The framed photographs are from an American photographer who passed away some years ago.

[Walter Glover]

If memory serves corectly, Maris, I believe he was born in 1902 and fled this mortal coil in 1984. Correct me if I am mistaken.

[Maris]

Yep, it's the same bloke who lost his footing during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and broke his nose. The doctors were going to re-break and straighten that nose when his bones stopped growing but they never got around to it.

[smbooth]

Did they fall off the wall......

[Maris]

No they didn't fall. The wall behind them is supposed to have a picture rail. Above the rail the wall is supposed to be surfaced in 18% grey front runner and at the ceiling there should be a gallery hanging rail and moveable track lighting. Haven't got around to it yet!

There is a tension between collecting photographs and making photographs. And even after decades at it the making is still winning over the collecting. Is there something peculiar in the art of photography that rewards the pursuit of the new over the contemplation of the old?