this morning i was going through the morning’s san francisco chronicle when i came to the obituary section. one photo caught my attention, it was well composed and executed. i read the entry.
the gentleman died in a car accident in half moon bay. he was known for developing quality control standards for disk drives. he earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology. and he was a photographer for over four decades, experimenting with photographic chemistry and the instant production of colour.
from the obituary: “[he] believed that photographs are meant to be, simply, instances of personal experience. they are brief vignettes of vision that are not meant to be didactic or symbolic. they are interesting because they are someone else’s view. he likened an exhibition of his work to the brief vignettes in hemingway’s in our time - seemingly unconnected and varied, the only unifying factor being the experience of their creator.”
