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Entries in tourist polaroids (2)

Friday
Jul242015

tourist picture / civilized ku # 2933-35 ~ Summer

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campsite ~ Hitchins Pond - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
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pool steps ~ Cumberland Head, NY • click to embiggen
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pool girls ~ Cumberland Head, NY • click to embiggen
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porch / house corner ~ Cumberland Head, NY • click to embiggen

Summer is the time for camping, pools and flower baskets hanging on porches.

Thursday
Jul022015

diptych # 144 / civilized ku # 2922 / tourist polaroid / rain # 70 ~ an organizing principle

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Yacht•Boat House / Episcopal Cathedral ~ 1000 Islands, NY / Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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building mechanicals with flowers ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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polar bear / Kingston Brewing Co. ~ Kingston, Canada • click to embiggen
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Canadian island ~ 1000 Islands, Canada • click to embiggen

I have figured out what to do / how to categorize those pictures which do not fall into any of my existing bodies of work. The answer is simple .... create another body of work labeled tourist pictures.

Despite the name, the pictures which will fall into that body of work will not necessarily be pictures made while on my various travels. The defining characteristic of tourist pictures will be those pictures made of people / places / things which are rather obvious referents which motivate most people to make pictures. That characteristic will stand in contrast to my other pictures which fall into one category or another of my existing bodies of work, virtually all of which are pictures of people / places / things which people see but most often overlook.

An obvious referent would be like the polar bear picture in this entry - if one is in the Kingston Brewing Co. pub, why wouldn't one make a picture of the polar bear? That picture stands in contrast to the building mechanicals with flowers picture wherein the question might be - why would one take a picture of that stuff*?

Just as my pictures of referents overlooked have a black border, the tourist pictures will all the presented as pseudo polaroids. And, just as my black border is a throwback to the days of analog printing to include film edges, the polaroid shtick is meant as a throwback to the days when a lot of tourist / casual pictures were made with polaroid cameras. In addition, the tourist pictures body of work will also allow me to create printed books with multiple pictures per page in order to present a look much like the family picture album of days gone by.

*ANSWER: It's not what you see, it's how you see it. And, I like making pictures of referents people see but most often overlook.