Setting the Table for Issue No. 8
The new issue is on the table. Eight weeks of contact sheets from three shoots — a theatre troupe at rehearsal, a pigment study commissioned...
Read More →Dancers in the Window: How “Rehearsal, Noon” Was Made
The photograph that opens No. 8 was an accident of scheduling. The company rehearsed in a second-floor studio with a west window, and at noon...
Read More →Chrome Yellow: A Study in Pigment
A conservator friend let us photograph her pigment table: raw cadmium, lead white, a jar of chrome yellow older than the studio. The brief was...
Read More →The Working Table, August
Between assignments, the working table gets its own portrait: negs to sleeve, two cameras back from service, a proof of the Issue No. 7 slipcase...
Read More →West-Bound Light: Cameras for the Kit Piece
For ‘Cameras, West-Bound Light’ we arranged the kit itself — three bodies, a light meter, film boxes — on a west-facing sill and let the...
Read More →Twelve Mirrors, One Sitter
The green room at the theatre had twelve mirrors and one sitter. We spent a morning walking the geometry until the reflections agreed to behave....
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