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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Mamiya and my Dad

This is the camera my dad would use to create his double, triple, or quadruple exposures. Here's a picture of him posing with his friends, (on the right) when he was a young man. He probably set this up and took the picture with whatever camera he owned at that time. The following pictures are a series of his multiple exposures. Yes, he was a little nutty. I don't have a scanner, so took a picture of these, but they really are much clearer than this.
Watercolor, 7"x 7"
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dad would have gone CRAZY with photoshop! He died before his time.

Anonymous said...

that bottom pic...can't you just hear him singing, "good little, bad little, Y - O - U!"

Mark Adams said...

Susan, I love this camera series! I had a darkroom from the time I was 13 until just recently. It broke my heart to put my enlarger on eBay. The lovely batik quality of your watercolors brings a fresh vision to these old workhorses. I have new respect for my Yashica-D and Canon FTB as possible fodder for the daily paintings.

martha miller said...

mark adams wrote:

"the lovely batik quality"


hear, that, sue? you were wondering how that was working!

i agree - it's a wonderful series!

xo
m

Susan Beauchemin said...

MARTHA, he lives on in us--you can go crazy in photoshop, I'll just go crazy! Yes, I can hear him singing that song!


MARK, Thank you, The process of my paintings are much like making a batik. Get those cameras out to paint!

Katie said...

God, I loved your dad!