{"product_id":"mark-cohen-groundworks","title":"Mark Cohen: Groundworks","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of the pictures in this book were made over the last ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI walked around the city and took pictures just like I have always done with no preconceived idea of what subjects to select.\u003cbr\u003eOne picture at a time. Each complete in itself. Forty years ago I worked in the same way and with the same technique of taking a very fast and spontaneous image up into the camera and landing it on the film inside.Some of these pictures from the 1970’s are included as a way to illustrate my initial impulse to photograph still lifes. Often strange rebuses like images of snow flakes on a cabbage leaf. The picture possibility had to be decided almost unconsciously - so I snapped and I saw it for the first time in the darkroom, in the negative.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThey are not all sharp or made by looking thru the viewfinder.\u003cbr\u003eThey are accidental and automatic. and taken furtively and quickly as if when I saw the man or the fragment of food or waste paper I wanted to just pick it up and place it into the cameras as a note - on a frame of the film inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThat way these pictures are discovered only after the film is developed. First I made a 16x20 inch print of each negative and in it the grain and composition of elements came out to help solidly fix the idea of sleeping on the sidewalk , near a curb attached to a small crust of bread.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat else may have happened is that in-between the few pictures of homeless people that are included is the grounding of their lives with the still lives and landscapes set between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a catalog of the surface that is with more detail and subjectivity than the modern global view from space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SUPER LABO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555654504505,"sku":"210000002990","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/annotation-2024-05-24-125842.png?v=1790279687","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/mark-cohen-groundworks","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}