Alastair Cochrane
About the Image(s)
Something very different. As I like to use new images but haven't been able to do much recently, I came across this print while researching for a book I was working on. It's a selfie taken in 1966 with my then new camera a Voigtlander Vitoret. This is a scan of the print that turned up on the same day as I took delivery of the new biography of Vivian Maier who took numerous self portraits (a nice coincidence). I haven't done any editing and this is what I took on that occasion. I guess this was a bit experimental testing a new camera and I am pleased that the exposure worked out ok. The shop still exists but I have no idea who the figure is at the right side - a passer-by wondering what I was photographing? This was my first "real" camera after a Kodak Brownie Cresta and was all I used for about 10 years.
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(Groups 83 & 87)
The featured image is absolutely balanced in every way....and I do mean from the point of creating a narrative...or perhaps better said, a contemplative image. I hope you bring more of your early work to this page, and wondering if you plan to begin shooting like this again, either digitally or via film stock? Can you elaborate on the book you are writing? I am currently inside 4 years of research for mine. Thank you, Alastair.
Lance A. Lewin
PSA B&W Photography Mentor
PSA South Atlantic Area Membership Director   Posted: 05/03/2022 07:36:30
Love the superimpositions. Nowadays in the digital world everything image has very 'clean' look, like CD music. Probably that is why some people sometimes like to hear Vinyl's.   Posted: 05/10/2022 10:13:31
(Group 42)
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