Ensemble I + II

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I had been drawing Corinna for a while when she told me she had a part in a production of The Crucible.  I was working up to asking if I could photograph their rehearsals but before I could ask her she invited me.  

The first book is of photographs of rehearsals in the living room of the Victorian house we used to live in.  Actors sat in groups on a sofa or the floor, always focusing on whichever actors were performing.  Their focus and their concentration was a surprise to me and impressive.  

Book II was made in rehearsal rooms above a theatre.  The actors sat on folding chairs lined up along the walls.  They were learning and practicing a hymn that they would sing as a chorus during part of the play.

Ensemble II

At that time I was using a 35mm camera.  Color work was sent to a lab.  Proofs would get to me slowly and had to be sent back for adjustment usually more than once.    

The slow process gave me time to live with the images and think about them.

I didn’t mount the prints directly on the book page but cut windows in the page and mounted them from behind.  The page then served to frame the photograph.  This was also a slow process.  But I find slow careful work with paper soothing.

Ensemble II

Ensemble I + II each made in an edition of 2. 10 x 15 inches, C Prints window mounted on 1 ply museum board paper bound in mylar cover. 2004