Lights, camera, action

I am intrigued by pictures such as this. It had laid dormant for 30 years or so, probably taken somewhere in the Soviet union during the 1960’s or 1970’s, and then brought into light, as the film was developed in quite another world. On the roll were other pictures as well, such as this.

A fellow member of Rangefinderforum found the undeveloped film in a Soviet-era camera he had bought, and developed it.

Just this month I received a KMZ Drug with a roll of film in a bulk-load canister still inside. The film was cracked and torn in places, but I managed to get it onto a reel.

Tried HC-110 (dilution H) for 12 min; it was mostly fogged beyond recognition, but a few frames came out.

Photography is a material culture; photographs are semi-stable, they hold together, they can withstand certain amounts of stress. Given the whims of life, they can show up in unexpected places, far from their origins of production and consumption.

Exposure compensation points at Look at me, a site for sharing found photos. Similar sites are Superfluous and Time tales.

B&W is the new black, according to Charlotte Cotton.

One of the boring things about arty photography, the type of photography often found in modern art galleries, is that it seems to be preprogrammed to be presented as square-meter unpersonal C-prints (hell, if they only would have done something more interesting color-wise, like Kodachromes printed on the process formerly known as Cibachrome). Everything seems to be in color, nowadays.

Hoping for more b&w photography, doing my bit over at my photoblog 5063.com, where most is in b&w.

Here’s an interview with Garry Winogrand, found via 2point8. The energy, the tilted horizon, the thousands of rolls. What a man.

Garry Winogrand on Vimeo.

For quite some time now, I’ve been photoblogging at 5063; all pictures, no words. But I also like to write about photography, hence this blog about photography.