What photographer set out to make a thousand pictures of tea cup? He was
onto something: that photography can be not just extensive (as exemplified
by folks jetting off to Kenya, Santiago, or Hokkaido for snaps) but also
intensive. Mr. Land's instant film introduced me to this door, in that
it was on his Type 52 that I first made an image of it that made me gasp
at first sight. With that one image in my mental flesh, the sight would
not leave me alone, so that I filled page after page in my negative files
of images of the door in different kinds of light, varying points of view,
lenses, even films (also Tri-X). Of these many negatives, I have chosen seven
from which to make positives so far, but these over and over, too, creating
for another kind of photographic concentration. I ended up trying to discover
how many and much I could extract from that one door. Five images are here,
all obviously in my opinion deservedly, but more could make it into this
collection as my skills in handling negatives digitally sharpen. The series
is intended to show not just how greatly photographs of just one door can
vary but even how photographic meaning can consist in making something out
of little, of transforming what is everyday into something more, then more
again.