Upper School Art Gallery
Matthew Crocker TBS '10
St. Anthony Montage
Black and White Silver Print
I shot this photo using a montage technique with a Holga camera. One of the advantages of using a Holga camera is that you can control how far this film advances, because you wind it manually. This allows for multiple exposures to overlap, and create a panoramic-like view, as I did in this image. I chose to photograph this area because images of long buildings seem to work well in montages, and the street in front of the building was very active. I tried to capture a person traveling from left to right in each frame I shot, to show this movement. There is a biker, a woman walking a dog, several cars, and various other figures in the photograph. To shoot this photograph, I took 6 frames. After each, I would wind the film 2/3 of the normal distance, and move to the right. Keeping my camera facing perpendicular to the front of the buildings, I would walk until the viewfinder showed an almost entirely new image, at which point I would shoot the next frame. The multiple frames overlapped, which caused the ghost-like image of the man to appear next to the biker. The negative created by this series of shots was about 10 inches long, but due to the constraints of the enlarger, I could only print about half of it. The montage is not exact, but I fell that it captured the environment well.
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