Bill Dane
14 Dec
It took me quite a while to whittle down all the photos I like to these. Perhaps I am just a sucker for store windows, which, though I’ve pretty much stopped shooting them these days, was the first project I ever attempted (unfortunately not with much results) and will always have a soft spot for. Looking through Bill Dane’s volumes feels like falling into a wonderfully fragrant (pungent?) elevator shaft whose walls are covered in fantastic things to look at. Some of the images require a bit of deciphering – some seem to be window reflections, others almost seem like multiple exposures. They’re all wonderful puzzles for my brain. I couldn’t really find an explanation of his process on his site, but there was this on his lo-fi workflow from his blog:
I Street Walk to find pictures = Hunt and Release.
I believe I’d be called a “Straight Still Photographer”.
(Perhaps, “Bi …..” or “Still Straight …..”)
Using a Nikon D80 – since ’07.
I edit, crop and tweak with ‘iPhoto8′.
(Moses told me he could get me Photoshop free)
((I thanked him and no thanked him))
Pictures go to Costco for 4 x 6 postcards.
They go to Pictopia for more editing,
VOLUME creation and apparently
not.to print for Shows or Sales !
Buy Bill . Sorry,. “Bye”. . Heart and emotions on soiled sleeve
If I were rich, I’d subscribe to his weekly picture postcards. Each week for a year he sends you 4 picture postcards. (You can take a look at some of them in the pictures of his shows to get an idea of what they look like.) Um, Bill, do you have a limited, cheaper version for the indigent?
However, I purchased one of his books and lo and behold, being local, he offered to deliver it to me himself. I met him over coffee/a muffin and we had a nice chat about the hey day of street photography, the arts teaching he does and random crap. It turns out the photos are all straight, no manipulations except for sharpness and brightness/contrast adjustments from Pictopia. It also turns out that he thinks they are very political. I’ll have to mull that one over.
It was a treat to meet him, and I even got an extra book out of it! How nice, not to mentioned he signed them. I was jokingly instructed to wait til Xmas, but what do you know, I am good at procrastinating but bad at waiting…
What a Treat, Jin ! Bill