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Hope St. Brooklyn, NY 10.14.09 (SX-70 with Polaroid 600, magenta gel)
Cause for celebration. My day was seriously made yesterday when the news broke.
Polaroid is coming back.
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Image copyright James Ryang 2009
Bridle Hill Farm is about 3 hours upstate in Jeffersonville, NY. I went up there with Derek and Eva for a shoot awhile back but I never really looked at the photos from that roadtrip until today. The farm was equipped with a riding stable both indoors and out, a few barns, and a perfect white house on a hill. I just saw the film Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas and started thinking about the pastoral landscape as a subject again. These are some images of the property and the farm.
I used to live in Harlem. From Sept. 2001 to Sept. 2002, I lived on 145th and Edgecombe Ave off the St. Nick stop across from Jackie Robinson Park. Crazy. Yesterday, I spent the day installing my friend Louis’ photo show at the Maysles Institute for the Congo in Harlem celebration and got treated to a much-missed fried chicken lunch at Sylvia’s, which is across the street from the theater. I’m gonna be going up there more in the coming weeks if anyone wants to grub.
All images copyright James Ryang 2009
Today, Repulsion screened at the Museum of Modern Art. When I arrived for a ticket, there was only one remaining. Regardless, I’ve always considered Roman Polanski’s 1965 film, starring Catherine Deneuve,a major visual reference in my ideas on photography and its execution. Most notably, the montage sequence of a distressed Deneuve walking around 1960′s London, as if the camera is mounted to her waist and the lens is directed toward her. The resulting effect is a crop of her upper body that stays fixed in the 16:9 frame, thus the background (the urban landscape) is the only element that shifts. Beyond the psychological disruption in the film and the repetition of visual references like the razor blade and the skinned rabbit, Repulsion is not to be missed if anyone is free on Sunday afternoon at the MoMA.