And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
My shut-in selfie… Say that ten times fast. I’ve had no excuses to do a self-portrait. And I know that I had to do it before I shaved off my beard, heaven knows when my next beard will appear.
Balancing the Deardorff on the selfie stick was a bit of a trick. Doing a selfie with the Dorff is a particularly challenging endeavor. No autofocus, effective ISO of 5, and 4 sheets of paper to get it right.
Definitely a historical image, the bread is now gone and probably will never come back.
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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