1967 Corvette StingRay
A portfolio of black and white images I made in 2018 and printed as gift for my father-in-law, to help him commemorate his then-recently restored 1967 Corvette Stingray, which he’s driven and worked on since buying it used back in college in the 1970s.
“Behind the Scenes”
These multi-shot composite images were taken inside and outside his garage, with one light and a modifier on a boom. This was a brand new—and likely one time only—experience for me, since this isn’t a style of photography I had ever tried before or been interested in. Besides the fun of giving it to him as a gift, it ended up being a nice physical and technical challenge.
In this sequence it’s obvious that I would have enjoyed the convenience of a dolly, instead of dragging the light, modifier, boom, and a pair of 10lb weights in a plastic grocery bag across the concrete. Lesson learned.
“From Ideal to Image: The Search for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies”
Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, 1961
“Strictly speaking, there is no way to unmask an image. An image, like any other pseudo-event, becomes all the more interesting with our every effort to debunk it.... The state machinery, the processes of fabricating and projecting the image, fascinate us. We are all interested in watching a skillful feat of magic; we are still more interested in looking behind the scenes and seeing precisely how it was made to seem that the lady was sawed in half. The everyday images which flood our experience have this advantage over the tricks of magic: even after we have been taken behind the scenes, we can still enjoy the pleasures of deception.”
