Having graduated high school in 1978, I had initially decided against college and spent a “gap year” working as a plumber. Good job skill and pay, but I was feeling left behind with all of my friends off at school. Having now realized that college was the way I wanted to go, I had decided to follow my passion of photography and go for a fine arts degree. I had recently purchased my first new camera, an Olympus OM-1 and was getting serious with it in my explorations around the city. I was already enrolled in school and waiting on summer session to begin. It was during that time that I made this image in Detroit’s Shelby Square. At the time, all I was seeing was the graphic quality and I thought it was probably the best photograph I had ever made. It continued its place as a prized image in my portfolio for several years until I lost track of it in the volume of imagery I was now creating. What I find wonderful in my rediscovery of this photograph is that it contained so very much more than that graphic quality that caught my young eye. The things […]
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