Thursday, July 24, 2008
SPIN party at HCP
Tomorrow (Friday, July 25) there's a really cool party at HCP. If you're reading this you have to attend. Period.
Here's my little story that will be one of many on the wall (I don't know where the blanks will be, but there will be some, obviously, in order to do a visual madlibs)
Bob was nervous when he walked into HCP for First Tuesday. Around his neck he sported his Leica IIIb, Model G Societe Tiranty Chrome with Rare 5 cm f 2.5 Hektor chrome lens and SCNOO winder. He rubbed the leather case for good luck. He was looking forward to showing the collection of flower portraits, landscapes, and vacation photos he had worked on for so long. But he was scared a little, too, because he heard that the people at HCP’s First Tuesday could be kind of conceptual, whatever that is. His Leica Historical Society cap had buttons proclaiming “Real Photographers Use Film!” and “I Hate Photoshop!”
In HCP’s critique room, Bob watched while a new member, Andreas Gursky, struggled to raise his oversized print to sit on the ledge. Andreas looked a little proud when he said the photo had just been acquired by MOMA. Not sure what a MOMA might be, Bob stared at the print and asked, “So. What kind of camera do you use?” Andreas stared at him, reached into his pocket for a switchblade knife, and promptly slit his own throat.
Another young photographer, Cara Barer, put her large, pretty photos of books and pomegranates on the wall and exclaimed that she was a finalist for the Aperture Prize! “Well, maybe that’s good, but what kind of camera do you use,” queried Bob, pursing his thin lips. “Um, I didn’t use a camera, Bob. I made these with a scanner.” Bob sneered but said nothing. Cara sighed and walked away.
Kristy Peet, the youngest photographer in the room, then put her large color photos on the wall. They were crazy! Pictures of feet and drains and grass and the back of peoples heads! “I don’t really get it,” said Bob. “But what I really want to know is what kind of camera do you use?” Kristy looked a little dumbfounded, but said “I use a large format Toyo with a normal lens. It’s the only real camera for serious photography, right?” Bob looked down at his little Leica and rushed over to Andreas’ corpse and grabbed the switchblade from his cold dead fingers. He ran after Kristy with the knife raised over his head! The last anyone saw of them, Kristy was yelling “HCP’s awesome, right? I know, Right?”
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