People of Color #3 – Woman With a Hook
Day three of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Her tattoos sang beautifully together.
What Does Modern Look Like? – Sketchbook With Voices
This collage is in a book called ‘Sketchbook with Voices’. It is actually a
sketchbook of blank pages with an idea, question, statement or assignment by an artist.
I got it way back in the 80s and decided to use it for photo sketches instead of
regular drawings. This image is probably the only image in the whole book that has
any drawing in it at all.
The black and white image in the background was taken by me during a photo shoot with
a friend. My sister-in-law at the time knew that I liked tan lines and took the
color photo of her friend while on vacation in Mexico and sent it to me.
You can see digital versions of this type of image, people in a museum looking at
some huge photo on the wall, which is actually the photo of the person making the
image. Just remember where they got the idea, ok? LOL
Business and Pleasure in the Sun
Back in 1982 my wife and I had returned to San Jose after a year in Michigan. We
basically were broke so we had to live with her parents while we got back on our feet.
We lived in the five bedroom house my wife had grown up in. My father in law and the
family in general did everything themselves; cars, roofs, water heaters, wiring,
etc. It didn’t matter what it was, if it could be done without having a pro do it, it
was done.
My brother in law was working on putting in a new shake shingle roof when I went up
onto the roof to document it for my father in law. I spied the pool next door and my
original thought was how nice it would be to cool off in it. While I was up there
the neighbor’s daughter came out and jumped in the pool, quickly got out and laid
down to sunbath. All of a sudden a completely cool image came into my view finder.
A hard at work roofer, all business (which he was, he was completely oblivious to the
woman swimming and sunbathing) and the woman, completely absorbed in her pleasure
activity. Snap away I did until I got this composition out of it. It is one of my
favorite photos from the beginning of my photography work.