00046
December 02, 2023
•
Leave a Comment
This is a brief introductory paragraph if you are new to my blog. In the 1970s I was shooting black and white film because it was cheap when I did the lab work. Rather than make an enlargement of each individual photograph on the roll of film, I would make a collective print of all the negatives. In the darkroom I would set the negatives on the une...
Read the Full Post »
00045
December 01, 2023
•
Leave a Comment
My uncle Phil Weston was the person who got me interested in serious photography in 1971. Years later he helped run a printing company in Des Moines. He was being a nice guy and a supportive uncle when he hired me to take some informal candid photos of their workers in January 1975.
I did not do a good job. My failure taught me.
I was extremely s...
Read the Full Post »
00044
November 17, 2023
•
Leave a Comment
I’ve heard that everyone is a hero in their own story. I have a few stories in which I am not the hero. In this story my mitigation is that I was young and stupid.
Most of the photos in this roll are of Marian Pierce in September 1980.
A month earlier my wife Janet told me that she was leaving our marriage so that she could pursue a relationship...
Read the Full Post »
00043
November 07, 2023
•
Leave a Comment
Contact sheet #43 has images from six different times. Each contact sheet contains negatives in strips of six or fewer. Usually each contact sheet contained negatives from one continuous roll of film. Some, like this, have strips of negatives from different rolls of film.
There is a set of photographs I took in Denmark in the summer of 1973. One o...
Read the Full Post »
00042
October 25, 2023
•
Leave a Comment
The photographs of contact sheet #42 reflect the impact of Professor Hugh Lifson on my photography.
I took introductory drawing from Prof. Lifson my second semester freshman year at Cornell College. I learned a lot from him as did many others. He was an excellent teacher providing both guidance and a model of behavior. From him I learned such thin...
Read the Full Post »
© Eric Weston