{"id":3298,"date":"2018-01-28T19:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2018-01-28T19:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:31:33","slug":"marblehead-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Marblehead 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been combing through my memories and photographic archives in search of traces of entanglement with rocks. The first photographic engagement that I can find came about as a result of an invitation to accompany a photography student named I think Shulman on an expedition to cliffs at Marblehead in the Spring of 1965. He was doing 8&#215;10 color, as I remember.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34064839943\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Marblehead54a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4228\/34064839943_80f94987c5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" alt=\"Marblehead54a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI think these are the very rocks:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/39172022074\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Lighthouse Point, Marblehead MA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4701\/39172022074_755c25e935_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" alt=\"Lighthouse Point, Marblehead MA\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI  can&#8217;t remember if I had already encountered Aaron Siskind&#8217;s 1944 Gloucester rock photographs, or his 1950 Martha&#8217;s Vineyard series, but Len Gittleman might have shown them to us. I was certainly entirely susceptible to Siskind&#8217;s mode of seeing by Spring 1965, but I&#8217;m not sure if these are unwitting homage to Siskind or directly derivative from work of his that I&#8217;d seen. But there I was looking at <b>form<\/b> in rock, wrestling with light and shadow, putting a 2&#215;3 frame around what seemed to be significant bits of lithoscape:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/38962962165\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Marblehead 1965 42\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4745\/38962962165_d1db66a76d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"Marblehead 1965 42\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34489003970\/in\/photolist-22FuRqW-22n2ncK-UxFaiu-UToNeQ-UToDhS-TUcrrH-TUcd7B-TUcusT-TRioif-UxF8hL-UxFb9Y-TRinew-22DGg6m-TQWDfG-22DHm1Q\" title=\"Marblehead47a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4269\/34489003970_0206d68dd1_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" alt=\"Marblehead47a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34032095384\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Marblehead44a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4220\/34032095384_c8cc88e20a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" alt=\"Marblehead44a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34064894943\/in\/photolist-22FuRqW-22n2ncK-UxFaiu-UToNeQ-UToDhS-TUcrrH-TUcd7B-TUcusT-TRioif-UxF8hL-UxFb9Y-TRinew-22DGg6m-TQWDfG-22DHm1Q\" title=\"Marblehead55a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4197\/34064894943_41971ab918_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"Marblehead55a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34032091804\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Marblehead36a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4222\/34032091804_2b029f1c70_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" alt=\"Marblehead36a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later I scanned those negatives and did some experimental tessellations of two of them:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34720826762\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"illusionx4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4224\/34720826762_5127fe4c3d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" alt=\"illusionx4\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI love the 3-D illusion that emerges, which suggests some lesson in figure-and-ground perception, and I love the notion that there are always more possibilities in an image than one first realizes.<\/p>\n<p>\nI went still further with the second image, tessellating and then split-toning to create an image that seems not to be rock at all:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34543000720\/in\/album-72157626190872920\/\" title=\"carpet design\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4250\/34543000720_f5d7730130_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" alt=\"carpet design\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nIn the same cache of negatives I found these two: Shulman himself, and Shulman&#8217;s spouse dealing productively with the boredom of waiting for him to finish playing with the huge camera.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34028048344\/in\/photolist-TUcusT-UxFaiu-UToNeQ-UToDhS-TUcd7B-TUcrrH-TRioif-UxFb9Y-UxF8hL-22DGg6m-TRinew-TQWyBo-V8sWwx-TQWDfG-V4Xga3-22DHm1Q-UT2tLE-V4ih67\" title=\"Marblehead25a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4271\/34028048344_d78dd17008_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Marblehead25a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34871380515\/in\/photolist-TUcusT-UxFaiu-UToNeQ-UToDhS-TUcd7B-TUcrrH-TRioif-UxFb9Y-UxF8hL-22DGg6m-TRinew-TQWyBo-V8sWwx-TQWDfG-V4Xga3-22DHm1Q-UT2tLE-V4ih67\" title=\"the photographer&#x27;s spouse\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4203\/34871380515_63bdc463da_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"the photographer&#x27;s spouse\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been combing through my memories and photographic archives in search of traces of entanglement with rocks. The first photographic engagement that I can find came about as a result of an invitation to accompany a photography student named I think Shulman on an expedition to cliffs at Marblehead in the Spring of 1965. 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