So this guy got a Polaroid camera in 1979 and from that date until his death in 1997 he took one picture a day with it. Then so his efforts wouldn't be in vain, two of his friends digitized all of them and posted them online.
I like to thank my friend ruth for this link.
There is so much you can say about these photographs - how some are great photos and some are just fun snapshots. Some are very personal and some I can relate. One of the friends in the 1979 series looks like my friend Chuckles. (click the hyperlinks to compare) Also i love the instant film format. The unedited rawness.
I have been basically doing this with my D300 when I first bought it. I think I'll starting doing this myself, while also including my normal posts of whatever I have been posting about. This is also similar to my friends (Vanessa, Lauren and Pang) recent commitment of taking a self portrait everyday for one year. Peep them out as well.
I thought about doing a photo a day too, but not self portraits. Melissa brought up a good point, though... it would have to have a bit more focus. Just a photo a day if abstract and probably wouldn't push someone to be very creative.
ReplyDeleteI just need something to propel me into actually using my camera more. :/ I think that you, however, would come up with some amazing stuff. :)
These are way cool. I think that guy looks more like Andrew Ford, but maybe that's just me.
ReplyDeletesteph - i dont think this guy really trying to put together a large body work of art. these photos were found and scanned after his death. This became a kind of accidental documentary of his life for the last 22 years of his life.
ReplyDeletefranny - i can see that. maybe he's andrew and chuckles' dad.
I agree with Martin that he wasn't trying to put together a work of art, but taking a picture a day was intentional and I read somewhere that his friends put this together at his request.
ReplyDeleteI was referring mostly to the project Vanessa, Lauren, and Pang are doing. The 365 has been going around Flickr for a long time, and it seems the more it progresses, the more creative people seem to get with it. It's a good way to motivate someone to learn more about their camera/photography. A self-teaching tool, if you will.
ReplyDeleteI actually didn't look at that guys stuff, the website was blocked at work. I'm looking at it now. It's pretty amazing. Photos are sometimes a lot more telling than a journal ever could be.
this project is amazing. thanks for linking to this Martin! i found myself looking up pictures he took on the day that i was born and on other people's birthdays as well. i think the last picture is really haunting and sad at the same time. i wonder if he would still be taking pictures (or what kind of format of pictures) today if he was still alive, with film for Polaroid expensive these days.
ReplyDeleteyea - i checked out my bday photo. its soooo crazy that i can find a photograph taken on the day i was born.
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