And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
This is a new image from my large-format portrait project. I used an 8×10 Deardorff view camera and sensitized paper to make this image of Stephanie. We popped over to Lake Katherin to make this image. It’s such a great outdoor space.
Here’s the beast. It’s a heavy one to carry, and the tripod alone is a killer. It’s French, go figure.
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955