A tumblelog by Stuart Harrington
He saw through to the bones of people, not only through the flesh, but through the flesh of their thought to the skeletal motive. He found no motives. He found no reasons for what they did.
Happy people take happy pictures. Night photography of abandoned places is for the mad ones.
Chris was taking the camera off his shoulder while it was still rolling to get his hand around it to turn it off. And we had framed the film so carefully throughout. We were going up the escalator, and I saw Chris just throw the frame away, not intentionally, just because he figures it’s the end of the shot… When I saw that end of the footage, I was like, No, no, I want the film to end that way so that we’re kind of just throwing away the very careful aesthetic and compositions we did throughout. The story’s over, it’s a film, it’s a mechanical device, and let’s just kind of break that.
Shore explains why he prefers smaller format prints, bucking the current trend of huge photographs, and gives a rare insight into the thought process that goes into his photography.[via Conscientious]
In 2050, people will look at this and know what 1970s New York was like
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