Just in case any of you are in San Francisco... -
My opening—a solo exhibit, if you will—is tonight at Collage Gallery, 1345 18th St. at Missouri St. on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, 6-9pm. I will be showing some of my new Polaroid pieces, as well as a few best-sellers.
S., by Heather Polley, taken with Polaroid Chocolate film and an Automatic 104 Land Camera.
I hardly ever shoot portraits, but S. (my oldest friend’s daughter) is so lovely, it was hard to go wrong. I was still getting used to the parallax while shooting closer with the camera.
Iago study from an Italian, by Julia Margaret Cameron, albumen print, 1867
This is the first Cameron portrait of a man I have ever seen.
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Work is up at Collage Gallery, installed all by myself! Most of the pieces are enlargements of Polaroid originals. I need a drink. Too bad I still have four hours of work left.
We desperately need more lights on the work, but I hope that will be in place before the opening Friday night.
Jeff Buckley (Jeff Drifts Off), from the Grace album cover shoot, by Merri Cyr, 1994
The world lost one of its greatest singers 15 years ago today. It still makes me sad to think of the music we will never get to hear.