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Photography

VikFlicks.

VikFlicks is where I practice noticing what everyone else walked past: street, campus, concerts, cars, and people moving through real spaces.

The lineage

Noticing, at the highest level it's ever been done.

Real prints from the public archive, by the people who set the standard. This is the tradition street photography practices in: see what everyone else walked past, and keep the receipt.

Florence Owens Thompson, a migrant farm worker, photographed by Dorothea Lange in Nipomo, California
Migrant MotherDorothea Lange. 1936. Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection.Lange stopped for ten minutes at a pea pickers' camp and changed what a photograph is for.
The Snake River curving toward the Teton range, photographed by Ansel Adams
The Tetons and the Snake RiverAnsel Adams. 1942. National Archives, Records of the National Park Service.Adams made this one for the public record. The mountain is still there. So is the negative.

My frames

Street, campus, concerts, cars, and people moving through real spaces. The current work lives on the feed.

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