Fire Doors

Tremont Avenue, Bronx New York

Bronx House of Detention

Flea Market

6th Avenue, 25th street. 1999.

Auto Graveyard

Bronx - near the Bruckner Expressway.

Snowstorm, Central Park

I always did like this overpass. This is looking towards Turtle Pond (on the left).

Racker

I'm beginning to put together gallery of shots that I like that are guaranteed 100% unsellable. This is one of them.

Accordian Book

I took a run down to A. I. Friedman this morning and finally bought a bunch of bookmaking supplies so that I can hand make a Japanese Accordian style book. Prints will simply be glued to mat board pages. Essentially - black 2-ply museum board gets hinged with black linen tape - and then a cover is made from bookboard and covered with linen. I haven't decided yet whether I'll bind it in such a way that it doesn't open up into the accordian or not. But everywhere I go, when I talk to people in various shops - they are excited to see someone making a handmade object and are very helpful. If nothing else, it should be a good prototype for Matt who wants to do a much larger version using this technique. The mat board pages are hinged on front and back with linen tape. The benefit of this technique is that the book lies flat, and is very sturdy. The downside is that it is handmade and fairly time consuming to produce.

Then stopped at Adorama. At first I couldn't even find the chemicals. They keep moving further and further towards the back of the store. The shelves where the fixer, developer etc. used to be are now filled with inkjet paper and other modern sundries. I joked with the cashier that soon there won't be any room left in the store for darkroom supplies at all.

e-mail folder

E-mail that came in during this week:

Several requests to know which was the best camera to begin with when shooting black and white film. (I'm at a loss with these types of questions).

2 requests asking whether I would develop film for people (one Arizona, one New York)

3 requests offering to redo my site so that it would be more profitable (for who I'm not sure)

Several e-mails saying that my link would be removed unless I linked back to them. But I never requested their link to me in the first place. This is the new search engine game: have programs that write e-mail requests as if they were a person trying to get reciprocal links to jump up in Google. They analyze the higher links in the search engine and then try to get you to link back to them.

2 requests from people that wanted to intern with me. I really couldn't figure out how that would work. My schedule is so haphazard. I might just be scanning negatives for a week. Or I might be out shooting. Would the intern just wait around for me to find something for them to do?

About 10 e-mails from people saying how much they enjoyed my photographs.

1 request to do a model portfolio. I can't do that without setting up some studio space. Not with an M3.

1 request to use a photo for a garage band CD cover (no money) and I stopped doing things for free unless it's some charity that I can support.

2 questions about printing black and white with K3 inks (one about the 2400, one about the 4800)

Birds, Central Park

Reflected Railing

That should be that for the stroll down memory lane. I have (I hope) most of the important shots filed away.

East River

That Day

It's hard to go through this film filing project without looking at shots from that day.
(From the 59th Street Bridge).