carytown
By Brian Grossman
26 Dec 2008
so i needed to develop a roll of fp4 from a model shoot but i hate developing only one roll of film. it's a waste of developer in a two-reel tank and then i'm left with an odd number of rolls of that kind of film which upsets my obsessive compulsive sense of order. that meant i needed to burn a roll of fp4.
i had been reading aperature's masters of photography series on walker evans and particularly admired some of his architectural work. some time ago i had tried my hand at this with mixed results and so pored over evan's architectural shots in an effort to understand what lloyd fonville called evan's "simple, straightforward symmetry in composition."
as it happened it was a particularly warm xmas day so i drove to the nearby carytown shopping district, consisting of perhaps half a dozen blocks of trendy upscale urban retail. the fact that it was xmas meant that everything was closed and there were no cars parked along the streets to obscure the view of the buildings as there would have been on any other day of the year.
these images are the result of that afternoon's impromptu homage to one of my favored greats. all images recorded with a canon rangefinder VL; jupiter 8 50mm f/2 soviet sonnar clone at f/5.6 to f/8 and ilford fp4 @EI 200 developed in microphen.
1 response
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rory cobbe gave props (26 Dec 2008):
yup
