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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Photo by Brad Pitt
This months issue of W arrived today. It’s their annual Art Issue. There’s a photo spread of Angelina shot by Brad using someone’s stash of Kodak Tech Pan. No word on how it was exposed (looks like a variety of ways) but if i remember correctly it was rated at 25! This stuff hasn’t been made for years and the original supply ran out sometime around 2004. (For my portfolio of T, I’m going to request that Conde Nast get Kodak to whip me up some Vericolor II in 220.)
Brad’s not a half bad photographer but most striking is the print job by Robert Mann. Mann’s a photographer, musician and the master printer behind most of those iconic Herb Ritts photos from back in the day. Unlike the mostly lackluster work W has shown in the last few months (see the I’m-phoning-it-in shoot of Tilda Swinton by the normally reliable Juergen Teller), these images jump off the page. Check out Mann’s own work here.
As an added bonus this month, W also gives us William Eggleston just in time for his career retrospective opening at the Whitney on Nov 7 (coincidentally or not, sponsored by W). No reproduction even comes close to seeing Eggleston’s dye transfer prints live and in the flesh. I can’t wait.
Part of the Accidental Landscape series.
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camera: Bronica SQ-Am
film: Kodak 400VC
Part of the Accidental Landscape series.
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camera: Bronica SQ-Am
film: Kodak 400VC
Cochecton, New York, 2008, originally uploaded by jacktastic.
M, Stella, Spencer, K at the country house. And me doing my best Martin Parr impersonation.
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camera: Bronica SQ-Am
film: Kodak Ektachrome E200
Off the coast of New Jersey, 2008, originally uploaded by jacktastic.
Taken from aboard David’s boat, the morning after his 40th birthday party.
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Camera: Holga 120N
Greenup, Kentucky, 2006, originally uploaded by jacktastic.
Thinking about my semi-annual trip to Greenup with K & M, checking my gear, loading up on film and reviewing pix from there in the last couple of years. There are a few spots that I like to photograph each time I go back as a part of a long term project I’m working on called Visiting/Revisiting….the trailer, the church formerly known as the Star of Bethlehem Church and this barn.
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camera: Holga 120N
