Yesterday, all day, it was my intent to get back to the place where I'd seen an interesting picture possibility, but it turns out I never left the house. Lots going on and the moment to put picture-taking in my day just kept getting put off. So once again 11 pm rolls around and I realize holy heck, I need to take a photo!
When I first began this project someone teased me about how long it would take before I did the inevitable self-portrait-in-mirror gambit. "All photographers do it. It's like it's required or something," he said. "It's all Lee Friedlander's fault," I retorted, but he'd already wandered away before I could tell him about Friedlander's "Self Portait" book from 1970; I remember very vividly my first encounter with the work back during my intro to photography classes. It was funny and human and self-referential without being self-obsessed.
I really didn't mean to fall back on a 'here I am in the mirror' shot so early in the project -- I wasn't after me at all, I was trying to do something low light with two lamps and one mirror but sometimes when one-handing the iPhone trying to line up a shot, I accidentally trigger its "shutter". So here's an unintentional self portrait, since the shot I didn't mean to take was much more visually appealing than the ones I intentionally made.
(iPhone, Hipstamatic, John S lens, Kodot XGrizzled film)
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