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Let’s be clear, I’m not comparing myself to Robert Frank. I was a hack photographer, a lens for hire variously photographing CEOs and CFOs for business magazines, racehorses for sports pages and some reportage for charities. Now I’m a flaneur with a fone, photographing ‘things of the day‘. No, it is not false modesty when …
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In Restaurant – U.S. 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina (image-object) a TV screen retreats. In the corner of a seemingly deserted restaurant, the unmistakable rounded corners of a 1955 TV set stands alone. There is no human presence (we will talk about Frank in a moment). The bright screen and the burnt-out window, table edge …
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I have had a picture in mind as I’ve been developing this practice-research PhD. It’s been a box (black naturally, Bruno). An object. This would be what I would have created and used to learn about protocols, jpeg, objects and photography. Obviously it could not have contained jpeg – the whole point is that it …
In Cafe – Beaufort, South Carolina (image-object) an African-American baby crawls towards their blanket or changing mat across a wooden floor. The room has a table with a white tablecloth and two mismatched wooden chairs. Two windows are bleached out in the sun which casts panes of light across the floor. The light also falls …
The Robert Frank who produced his paper road movie The Americans was an object-oriented photographer. His was a flat ontology of object-actants. His documentary was of people yes, but also flags, jukeboxes, crosses, cigars, hats and cars – a Latour litany of human, non human and unhuman objects vibrant, doing things in the world. Those …