Several years ago, I went to an exhibition of old Polaroids. They were placed in grids on the wall and displayed in a reverse position showing only the captions handwritten on the backs of the photographs. There were also series of photographs that had lots of marginalia on them, requiring close inspection. It was a way of "exposing" a photograph with descriptive text only. This gave me the idea that one could actually stage a photo exhibition with just captions, perhaps with just blank white spaces, framed and matted. I am creating a variation on this idea on my latest album in the Music for Places series,
The Sound of a Photograph
The Sound of a Photograph
The Sound of a Photograph
Several years ago, I went to an exhibition of old Polaroids. They were placed in grids on the wall and displayed in a reverse position showing only the captions handwritten on the backs of the photographs. There were also series of photographs that had lots of marginalia on them, requiring close inspection. It was a way of "exposing" a photograph with descriptive text only. This gave me the idea that one could actually stage a photo exhibition with just captions, perhaps with just blank white spaces, framed and matted. I am creating a variation on this idea on my latest album in the Music for Places series,