Motorcycle In Taos – 2/365, Archive 365, Taos, New Mexico, January 2003, Tri-X black & white film print, photo © 2003-2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I miss black & white photography. I recently felt the old pangs for film when I ran into Tricia Vetrone’s work at Ingrained Photography while looking for peers for our Casket Arts 318 studio page (our brick and mortar art and writing studio. Would love it if you Liked us there). She shoots in black & white with vintage film cameras. Beautiful work.
Motorcycle In Taos was taken on one of my first writing retreats in Taos in 2003. It was a talking workshop, long before the silence befriended me. We were walking around the Mabel Dodge Luhan House with Natalie. I didn’t own a digital camera then and was still shooting with a Canon Rebel film camera and trusty Kodak Tri-X b&w.
It’s sad to me that Kodak declared bankruptcy this year. In a long history that began in 1888 with the slogan “you press the button, we do the rest,” George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers. He made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. I’m sure in his wildest dreams he never imagined we’d be taking digital photos on our cell phones. Time changes everything; photographs capture time.
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ARCHIVE 365: Since the completion of BlackBerry 365, I have missed a daily photo practice. There are so many photos from my archives that no one has ever seen but me. So I asked skywire7 if she wanted to do a daily practice for one year, taking turns posting an unpublished photograph from the past.
Archive 365 is a photo collaboration between skywire7 and QuoinMonkey featuring images from our archives. We will alternate posting once a day in our Flickr sets from July 1st 2012 through June 30th 2013. You can view our photographs at skywire7 Archive 365 set on Flickr and QuoinMonkey Archive 365 set on Flickr.
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I’ve been sad about Kodak as well. My camera is a Kodak (as was my first digital camera), and although Kodak’s digital cameras don’t get much recognition, mine has produced some wonderful photos, doing things I never would have thought possible. I’m also sad that this will be my last Kodak camera. It’s too bad they decided that digital would die out because they really were on to something if they’d just pressed on.
I’ve been traveling (for what seems like forever), and just getting caught up. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the archives. 🙂
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Robin, you are right — I don’t think I’ve ever picked up a Kodak digital camera, except for their instant & underwater cams. Who could have predicted what has happened, what would trend, how everyone would be shooting with digital now. When I find an artist who still uses film, I feel so happy inside. I keep saying I will get out and shoot film again, but so far I have not done so in a long, long time.
I hope your travels are going well. I need to get over to the Bogs and see what’s going on there. It seems like the Summer has been flying by. I will be on vacation part of next week, the first time in a long time it will feel like I’ve gotten away. There will be a lot of friends around so don’t know how much quiet time I will be getting. But still…the change of scenery will be delightful.
I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by. It is good to hear from you.
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