Lange, 60, was preparing for the opening reception of an exhibit of her own camera work at A Gallery For Fine Photography, in the French Quarter. For the past 17 years she’s been taking moody, black and white landscapes and genre scenes with a camera given her by soul mate Sam Shepard. She prefers old-fashioned film photography and loves the “alchemy” of darkroom development. Though she doesn’t develop her own prints, in a home laboratory near the laundry room like she used to. The best of her travelogue shots, that cover territory from sultry Mexico to sub-zero Minnesota and beyond, have been gathered in a new book “50 Photographs by Jessica Lange.”
