This must be my favorite of your film shots so far. It looks appropriately dated. alfr3do at 2007-01-13 22:51:01
I think it's interesting to shoot film in this way today. With the world awash in predominantly digital images, color film manages to look both nostalgic and hyper-real at the same time.
The passing of each successive epoch in photography necessarily includes a period where, in order for images not to look "typical," one must back up a little. Processes like, say, the tin-type and platinum printing, while breathtaking to look at, don't really push the "photography" button when I look at them anymore, so maybe that's a little too far.
I think "last-but-one" is just about right (cf. the resurgence of black and white when all the newspapers went to color, or using Kodachrome 25 when color negative film got good, or using a view camera after the SLR became a mass-market consumer product). This also helps keep the history of photography an additive one, rather than a categorical one of "new cancels out old." Good luck in your quest for the non-typical. Oh, and Fader here you come! Geoff Smith at 2007-01-14 09:00:37
Part of it is digital fatigue, right. But also I think there is the idea of what is required to make something that looks timeless - detached from reality just enough to be all the more real, and more fresh. One way to do that is to look a little bit anachronistic.
Plus it's fun as hell. Thanks for the comment. Eliot at 2007-01-16 16:50:00
if this here were the behringer USB guitar, the comments above would get a very special spin. ; ) witold riedel at 2007-01-21 19:46:28
