The Times Quotidian

“OutTake” is a series of work originally shot in 1984 and re-photographed in 2008. These new photographs, taken of Polaroid lighting tests from the original sessions, are intended to be seen as a strip and have been posted on TQ in sequence starting from right to left. The aging Polaroid gel remnant gives each “new” print a particular frame and focus. OutTake identities have a matter-of-fact quality. They lack the, “psychological insight” to which the original, formal, silver prints had aspired. The unique identiy of the sitter has been supplanted by the unique identity of the print. Released from their original agenda, these new portraits become free to take their place alongside “no one”.            Click on the Photo to Enlarge.

“Now we distrust depths, interiors, hidden truths. Meanings lie on the surfaces, artefacts of an occasion rather than truths about persons….
Sophisticated looking at photographs now wants the inscription within the image of signs of its making, marks of its being a photograph after all and not a timeless truth.” _ Alan Tractenberg, 2000