JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
I picked up this book a while back at my favorite local used bookstore (Page One Too in Abq) and enjoyed the stories told of the four fairly anonymous photographers.
I later read Lesy's more famous book 'Wisconsin Death Trip', which then picqued my interest to re-read 'Visible Light'.
I'd like to hear anyone's opinion of this book (or Death Trip). I find Lesy's use of photography as a vehicle for exploring history to be interesting, and seems to be a common thread in his writings.
Specific to 'Visible Light', I was fascinated by the contact strips of Angelo Rizzuto's, and how Lesy studied them as one would a film strip, in a group context, rather than each photo individually. I can't say that I've consciously attempting shooting film in the context of a group of images displayed as a grid of contacts, except for shooting slide film in my Olympus Pen D and projecting them as film strips. This aspect of Rizzuto's photography seems to me to be not so common; perhaps done more in art schools than by hobbyist shooters (which Rizzuto could be accused of having been); nevertheless, it's interesting to me.
I later read Lesy's more famous book 'Wisconsin Death Trip', which then picqued my interest to re-read 'Visible Light'.
I'd like to hear anyone's opinion of this book (or Death Trip). I find Lesy's use of photography as a vehicle for exploring history to be interesting, and seems to be a common thread in his writings.
Specific to 'Visible Light', I was fascinated by the contact strips of Angelo Rizzuto's, and how Lesy studied them as one would a film strip, in a group context, rather than each photo individually. I can't say that I've consciously attempting shooting film in the context of a group of images displayed as a grid of contacts, except for shooting slide film in my Olympus Pen D and projecting them as film strips. This aspect of Rizzuto's photography seems to me to be not so common; perhaps done more in art schools than by hobbyist shooters (which Rizzuto could be accused of having been); nevertheless, it's interesting to me.
aizan
Veteran
wdt is one freaky book. it might be the best edited photo book in my collection. i haven't seen visible light at the bookshop, yet.