BEGINNINGS
These are some of my first photographic 'keepers.' One dates from 1956, the others from the 1970s.
This early work was informed by books and films that I'd absorbed since college days – novels, essays, and plays by Sartre, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet; and the great French and Italian films with existential themes. At first I made portraits of friends and chance acquaintances who looked like outsiders or Strangers. Then I took up street photography in the same vein. Most of these images depict an isolated figure in a more or less inscrutable context. Only a few depict individuals who seem to be tasting Sartrean freedom/authenticity.
(To move previous/next, use keyboard arrow keys; or on pad/phone, click just inside the edge of the frame.)
These are some of my first photographic 'keepers.' One dates from 1956, the others from the 1970s.
This early work was informed by books and films that I'd absorbed since college days – novels, essays, and plays by Sartre, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet; and the great French and Italian films with existential themes. At first I made portraits of friends and chance acquaintances who looked like outsiders or Strangers. Then I took up street photography in the same vein. Most of these images depict an isolated figure in a more or less inscrutable context. Only a few depict individuals who seem to be tasting Sartrean freedom/authenticity.
(To move previous/next, use keyboard arrow keys; or on pad/phone, click just inside the edge of the frame.)
