About this
These are pictures that I scanned from film; I just don't have a digital camera and although I do kind of want one, I sincerely appreciate not having one.
Something about photography as a medium that is consistently difficult for me is the amount of time that goes into discussing Gear when talking about an image. I went to a women's college and my part time job there was working in the darkroom and photographic supply cage. It involved me handling more Gear than I really will ever need. Also, I appreciated my photo classes there because, as funny as they were at 4 am during finals-
- for some reason, we just didn't really talk about how big a camera or long a lens or whatever brand of paper we would "only" use. Not to get all A League of Their Own or whatever, but I took some co-ed continuing education classes later and noticed that so much of the critique discussion was taken up with This Is How Big My Camera Is, I Have A Hasselblad, My Pictures are Larger Format Than Yours So They are Better, and so on.
I know that information is important to many people in the photographic community. It's just not something I feel is particularly relevant to viewing these pictures.
...Regardless. As I do scan all this film, and then periodically commute across town to make ever-more-precious C-prints on Barbur Boulevard, creating images from film is something that I find increasingly valuable in this age of supra-mechanical reproduction. I wonder what Walter Benjamin would do.
Something about photography as a medium that is consistently difficult for me is the amount of time that goes into discussing Gear when talking about an image. I went to a women's college and my part time job there was working in the darkroom and photographic supply cage. It involved me handling more Gear than I really will ever need. Also, I appreciated my photo classes there because, as funny as they were at 4 am during finals-
- for some reason, we just didn't really talk about how big a camera or long a lens or whatever brand of paper we would "only" use. Not to get all A League of Their Own or whatever, but I took some co-ed continuing education classes later and noticed that so much of the critique discussion was taken up with This Is How Big My Camera Is, I Have A Hasselblad, My Pictures are Larger Format Than Yours So They are Better, and so on.
I know that information is important to many people in the photographic community. It's just not something I feel is particularly relevant to viewing these pictures.
...Regardless. As I do scan all this film, and then periodically commute across town to make ever-more-precious C-prints on Barbur Boulevard, creating images from film is something that I find increasingly valuable in this age of supra-mechanical reproduction. I wonder what Walter Benjamin would do.
