5/8/2023 0 Comments I Spy by Walter Wick![]() ![]() Little did I know I would be using a very similar camera to shoot the I Spy books 20 years later. The preview image of this type of camera is upside down and hard to see. And I was jammed up into the corner of the kitchen because the only lens I had was not very wide, so I missed the focus, which should have been on my mom's profile rather than the cup rack on the wall. Though the scene sums up my mom perfectly, she was patiently posing for me, not caught unaware. I was just learning how to use a large format camera, a slow and cumbersome tripod-mounted "plate camera" requiring a dark cloth to cover the operator so the scene could be previewed on the frosted glass camera back. This picture was taken during my first year of art school. She just had a way of quietly removing any stumbling blocks of letting me know, with out much fuss, that my path was clear. ![]() My mother had a big influence on me. Not on the specifics regarding the making of art, but for her way of encouraging my interests in it. Having no members of our immediately family professionally involved in the arts, she had no specific advice on how to proceed. ![]()
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