i also noticed in your pictures that there is a pay phone in the restroom?! that is so funny to me. i think including a lot of pictures of how often girls are on their phones, even when they're out, supposed to be having fun, would add a really interesting aspect to the work, especially since you are using your cell phone to make the images.
loon, a year or so ago a found this old photo album at a dump in boulder. i kept it, thinking i would do something with it, but you're more than welcome to it for your project. it's pretty damaged and weird, there are about 40 or 50 pictures i'd guess and most of them are of people with fish they've caught. the emulsion is peeling off of a lot of them and maybe you could use that for some photograms? i also have 9 national geographic magazines i'm not using if you're looking for some "found" imagery.
for playing with composition using found images, i think you should look at olivia parker. not photograms, but i think the way she sets things up is really successful.
dominic, i was thinking about how someone in critique said some of your images make them think of sound. there is a radiolab story about cities, particularly this segment, that i think you might like. might be totally irrelevant, but i am trying to think of ways we use technology to experience place, whether or not we've actually been there, and this keeps popping into my head. maybe thinking about this sort of "pace of place" will give you some ideas?
ashley, during your critique i thought of a radiolab story about alzheimer's and dementia patients in a german nursing home (the segment is only about 15 minutes). i also realized that there is a retirement home, hirschfeld towers, in my neighborhood and i thought about the possibility of you photographing in places like that? i know many of the people who live there are physically disabled and since their lives are not so regimented by a more hospitalized atmosphere, although support is offered by the institution, maybe people would be a little looser and more willing to chat with you and be photographed at places like this? i don't know, just a thought.
our next and last critique before the final is november 7. especially for editing down and out, i think posting here between now and then could be really helpful!
