What a great idea for a project. Thanks for posting that. It has helped me with a project I am engaged on.
I just want to bring up something on the processing. I have seen a lot of this very high key processing over the last few years but it is now becoming so prevalent that it is looking like a fad. I have always liked the style but now I am starting to get bored with it. Anyone else have any thoughts on this matter?
Indeed; it just looks like overexposed transparencies, something that would have meant your last job for whichever client.
Maybe the intention was/is? to suggest fading away into a ghost-like state?
The structures themselves look as if they were built on a wing and a prayer, with little sense of permanency but only of the fast buck whilst the tap stays open.
As for the broader sense of loss - of interpersonal communications - then sure, I can sign for that. I remember my own late teens in Scotland, where we didn't drink alcohol in our set, but frequented an Italian café that became out of bounds after about nine at night because it attracted the harder skater crowd from the nearby rink. Speaking Italian helped a lot in various ways, but I still had to pay... ;-)
Some of us went there every lunch hour, having Cokes and crisps instead of buying schol lunches (today, they call them
school dinners, for crissakes, in a wonderful example of egalitarian dumbing down). We'd go back again after school before wandering off to wherever we lived. Connie Francis and
Stupid Cupid: that Bal Ami was made for those sounds. I could weep for those days.
