A collection of recent images and the questions they raise. Out hunting for chairs - Account Manager’s Chair Shooting the account manager’s chairs was relatively easy. I sought permission to shoot in the store and, preferring the backdrop and palate of this particular...
I wanted to produce an image with a clearer relationship to the style of Bernd & Hilla Becher. While I believe this is not a workable way of completing the project as a whole, either logistically or on the basis of content, it felt like a avenue worth exploring...
Over the summer I shot some Washi F, a fluorographic X-Ray film originally from Eastern Europe, and cut and sprocketed for 35mm. I've drafted some thoughts on the film here: http://jamesgreenoff.com/washi/ but thought it could be interesting for a project later on,...
After initial feedback from the group in response to Photographer & Author I became aware that I was in danger of producing a typology of office furniture, that if I wasn’t careful the images would be too similar, and to “lack a reason to turn the page”. I was...
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Having consumed the Typologies of Bernd & Hilla Becher and August Sander’s Face of Our Time almost simultaneously, I have viewed each from the perspective of the other. Typologies / Blast Furnaces - Bernd & Hilla Becher While both build a typology through...
August Sander - Face of Our Time One of the things that stuck me about Face in our time is the looseness of the rules applied particularly when viewed in comparison to Bernd & Hilla Becher’s Typologies. Sander’s subjects are photographed in groups and alone, posed...