1982 FXB - Detroit to Los Angeles along the Texaco Trail

Davey Cooperwasser...

Alright...Couple more polaroids right before his departure... Look for him; he's out there somewhere... Ok for now.

Dayzze is flying the coop...

Our boy Davey is about to embark on an epic adventure! He's gonna go see America the proper way - on a solo ride with his chopper! Godspeed to you, brother...

Devilina and The Candy Man...

Win This Knuckle! - June 25th Born Free 3

Well, here it is...The Born Free Knucklehead!
I got to spend all day with this beast in the studio yesterday. It really is quite special...so the decision was made to shoot it in a special way - large format camera, and my very last box of 4x5 Polaroids!
I will be making a very limited amount of prints, so get them while you can...

A very special thanks to Eric and Jason for helping out on set yesterday...

Jason & Nick At The Risers

A few polaroids from todays shoot with Jason Webber.
Check out his blog: ATR

Sturgis: Jeremy

There is still some confusion re. the missing ammo, but things are starting to come back to me. Here is a polaroid of Jeremy I vaguely remember taking somewhere along the route (I believe it was in Colorado)...
For some strange reason, this picture triggers the song "Let it Bleed" in my head...

Agnes Sassoli De Bianchi - RIP

Little Bastard

There are some things in life we don't need anymore, and this Olivetti Lettera 31 is one of them - but I love it anyway. I've been doing my correspondence on this treacherous little bastard over the last couple of weeks, and my forearms have grown to Popeye
proportions because of it.

Jazz Hands!

I was starting to settle into my groove. The Kinks where playing in the background and the camera was firing in perfect sync to "Lola"...when suddenly, out of nowhere, the model decides to do "Jazz Hands"...

Horror, confusion, fear and an extreme insult to the senses set in...

WTF?

Joss

Random Polaroid

Fear and Loathing in LA

Getting hold of the drugs had been no problem, but the car and the tape recorder where not easy things to round up at 6:30 on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood. I already had one car, but it was far too small and slow for desert work. We went to a Polynesian bar, where my attorney made seventeen calls before locating a convertible with adequate horsepower and proper coloring.
-HST-

I can see Cadence

SX-70 Polaroid circa 1990

Mano a Mano on Hwy 86

Best shot ever...

So I shot with Teela from Photogenics today. The shoot was a little out of the ordinary today. Somehow I ended up with all sorts of constraints. Call time was at noon. Giovanni, the hair stylist, had to leave by 3:30pm. Vanessa, the wardrobe stylist, wouldn't be there until 1:30pm (she actually managed to get there by noon), and Teela managed to be over an hour late...I kept busy by riding the motorcycle around the block while waiting...HA!
To make things more interesting, I decided to use only the 4x5 camera and shoot my last 20 sheets of color polaroids. So we had to get it all with 20 or less shots, kind of a nice exercise in economy of shots when in this digital age you can just keep shooting until the odds are that you have a good shot.
...oh, and I only had one lens.
Here is the very first shot I took...Jackson thought it may be the best shot I've ever taken...

Art in the age of mechanical reproduction

I went to Photo LA today. Kind of a ritual for me to go every year. I do it mainly to see what the art world is up to, and also to see prints! Images are so accessible nowadays, but we usually only see them on a screen. The whole idea of the work to have a presence and unique existence at a place, has been lost for the most part. The mode of our sense perception, since Walter Benjamin wrote his essay on art, has changed dramatically.

So, the litmus test has been: which print would I grab and run and take the risk of becoming the headline in the morning edition "Photographer steals worthless reproduction. Blames vicodin for the incident"

I did see some work I enjoyed. Mainly prints by Lillian Bassman.

This is a shot of Megan for the Surface Avantguardian competition a couple of years ago.