SYRACUSE ADVENTURE

Syracuse Adventure

SYR ACUSE ADVENTURE

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oger, Polly, and Steven visited Rochester during Veteran’s Day weekend. On Sunday, November 11, Patty and I drove with them to Syracuse to see Gus’s new house on the southwest side of the city, at 211 Carlton Road in the Strathmore neighborhood, and celebrate his 30th birthday. W e then drove to 306 Peartree Drive in Camillus to see Steven’s great grandmother and great grandfather, Elaine and Emil.

I created this “instant photobook” depicting the events of the day, and published it on Amazon before I went to bed. The constraint of time imposed by the necessity to finish the book on the same day makes it impossible to look too deeply into the images, or second guess my choices. The first opportunity I will have to study the details in the photographs is after I receive the printed copy of the book in the mail. I hope to be delighted by aspects of the images or coincidental relationships I did not observe at the time the exposures were made, nor even when I assembled the book. Because of this, I am able to preserve a level of surprise for myself that is impossible in the normal slow, deliberate book-making process.

Frank Cost Sunday, November 11, 2018

About the Photographer Frank Cost is the James E. McGhee Professor of Visual Media in the School of Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has taught a wide variety of courses in the field of visual media for more than three decades. Frank has been photographing professionally since 1975 and has authored both textbooks and experimental photobooks exploring new forms of graphic expression enabled by digital technologies. He can be contacted at frank. cost@rit.edu.

This book is a Fossil Press Instant Photobook, published on the same day of the event depicted.

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