MY NEW YORK
50 Visual Stories by a teenager, 1968-1970
This portfolio highlights my work as a "budding" teenage photographer. The images were made in sequence, as if to tell a story. I likened my work to Storyboarding, and I saw myself, while shooting, as a documentary video photographer, but one working within the still image media. It was a natural reaction to shoot at least four images of each story. These "stories" presented themselves as I walked the streets after school, or on weekends. At the time, I thought nothing of what I was doing. I printed some of these negatives shot with a Nikkormat, mostly on Plus-X Film and developed by myself in Microdol-X 1:3 as well as printed in my darkroom. I showed the portfolio to family and friends and a few editors, in the years 1968-1971 and received a tepid reaction. The images in this collection were printed as individual images at that time. In 2008, exactly 40 years after I started this series, I revisited the negatives and remembered a faint footnote I made to myself, "that each of these composites were shot as a series - a story - and that they should be viewed as such. Using a high end scanner, I began scanning all the negatives and assembled digital composites of the original images. The result was exactly what I had visualized at the time I shot these.
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