Asking why...

John Pfahl, Wave, Lave, Lace 1978


"Why should not the camera also throw off the shackles of conventional representation?...Why not repeated successive exposures of an object on the same plate? Why should not perspective be studied from angles hitherto neglected or unobserved?...Think of the joy of doing something which it would be impossible to classify, or to tell which is the top and which is the bottom!"

Alvin Langdon Coburn

2 comments:

Cory Lane Anderson said...

This photo is fantastic! wow...

Christopher Paquette said...

Pfahl has always been one of my favorites. His Altered Landscapes series is a collection of very elaborate and deliberate views that take many hours to set up, but as you can see, the results are amazing.