When I was working with Subjects [Model a different kind picked by me not the internet] after a session a week or so we would review the contact sheets both selecting what we felt worked. I also would look again a year or so later which would allow me to see images that I hadn’t chosen after the session. Memory fresh just after the session our conversations, laughs and the smell of home made spaghetti sauce receding, like music the smell was a mood setter. A new view of form shape and emotion appeared. Now 27 years and the view is very different.
Stronger eye contact.
The session was a test for a period late 40’s Soft, romantic a women alone observed. We shot a couple rolls of color as the final images were to be hand colored. I printed two B+Ws neither of them are now represented. A different view, times changed and I see more today in the stronger self aware images.
Alone in her world this is more the feel I was looking for inspired by Louis Icart. She is still comfortable in herself just a bit more romanticized.
This image is the next step from a session to be hand colored. A warm toned print for the period. Then Kathleen Lepak adds the color with Marshall Oils and patience, the result was magic.
enjoy pjc
yes peter, time is a fickle editor. i look back with different shades these days. the pics remain the same, but i did not. i am looking for different things than that innocent girl looked for on gossamer breezes. it serves me well to ride the tides of time.
Time doesn’t exist I’m told. Ha tell my body that, what a bit louder please. Traveling is still there just shorter trips and more reflection. Seeing is the most important virtue, vice. Yesterday a stroll in Manhattan 1972 the young eye learning to see and focus. Still learning in 2017. peace pjc
And sometimes I say, “Why on earth did I shoot that?”
Yes Dick there are many “Why on earth did I shoot that” but sometimes 20-30 years later an answer is found to that question where previously you didn’t know the question. peace pjc