CHRISTOPHER LANGE
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VIEW FROM THE PROMENADE - 6.9.2012 by CHRISTOPHER LANGE
I walked briskly along the promenade on a Saturday afternoon. It was humid, but the streaks of rain dotting my t-shirt helped keep me from melting into the pavement. The sun had been in and out all day, and later on in the evening, would turn the coast of Brooklyn into a sun-soaked idyllic paradise.
At this point in the day however, it was drizzling. I like shooting in light rain because it generally lends a particular quality to the light that I absolutely love in black and white. I was working quickly, and was sitting on the partition between the upper walk-way of the Promenade, and the highway decks about 16 feet below. I waited for maybe…three or four minutes before making an exposure, and yet another three before making this one. As it turns out, the first was absolute garbage, none of the bicycles were there, and the people were in all the wrong places.
I nailed it, in this one though, I think.
-Chris.
Ps. Notice the tiny sailboat in the upper left part of the image?
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Sometimes I get bored.
My eyes get tired, I no longer feel inspired, and I start making really, really, REALLY boring photographs. Whenever I feel this starting to happen, I change my wandering habits, and go to a location that I either haven’t been to in a while, or have never visited before.
In this case, I decided to revisit the edge of Brooklyn Heights, where the Brooklyn Bridge park splits off into numerous paths and walkways, eventually snaking up to the ferry terminal. I was walking along, and hopped a few fences to get some better vantage points, before coming back to the pathway leading up towards Joralemon St. and noticing the absolutely beautiful light that was hitting these skeletons of warehouses.
It was really refreshing to photograph a subject I don’t normally look at, in an area that I don’t usually frequent. I was also fortunate to have the light on my side, that particular evening.
Who says 35mm is for wimps?
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HALF GALLERY - 11.11.11 by CHRISTOPHER LANGE
I finally got a chance to revisit this neg, 5 months after the fact. I shot this (as it says in the title) on 11/11/11, at Terry Richardson’s opening at HALF. There were hordes of people trying to get in, as well as a staggering amount of attendees already in the tiny closet-space of a gallery that is HALF.
I was standing by the window, looking out at the crowd, when my attention was caught by the guy who is looking straight at me, as well as the girl on the lower right. The fact that the girl in the lower left had her face lined up perfectly within the letter “D” on the glass was a happy accident.
This is a scan of a print, by the way, not a neg. I’m making a series of new 11x14” photographs from a number of selected 35mm negatives from the past year and a half or so. Keep an eye out.
Yours,
Chris.
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