Selections from my last roll of Konica Pro 160

Shortly after scoring a really great deal on two Bobinquick Bulk Loaders* from Garland Camera, I needed some film and remembered seeing some bulk color film at Ultrafine. A few short days later, and I was the proud owner of 100′ of perforated Konica Color Professional 160.

That 100′ netted me 19 rolls, mostly used to test cameras, sadly, plus a few feet of exposed film that probably could’ve been another 20 or 25 frames, and once I got used to all the fun of bulk loading, I really started to enjoy this film, and now that I’ve shot through it all, I’m sad there’s no more available… Continue reading “Selections from my last roll of Konica Pro 160”

Larry Sultan – ‘Pictures from Home’

For Pictures from Home, Larry Sultan spent much of the 1980s photographing his parents and trying to come to grips with his own transition into adulthood, “confronting my confusion about what it is to be a man in this culture” (26) and trying “to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live forever.” (28)

It’s a masterwork of image and text. When I reached the end of it, I started to cry.

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Jungjin Lee – ‘Opening’

Honestly, I don’t know quite what to make of Jungjin Lee’s Opening. Dark, gritty, almost Provoke-style are-bure-bokeh, but even beyond anything Moriyama ever put out, landscapes, or bits thereof, presented in this groovy accordion-style book. It’s really fantastic, if somewhat hard to see or read…

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