NOTHING WITH A NAME
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NOTHING WITH A NAME
While reading the thought-provoking book Photo No-Nos, in which photographer Jason Fulford collected the words of other photographers explaining their photo taboos, I found a quote from photographer Mike Slack. I loved the photo challenge nature of those words: “try to photograph only things that don’t have obvious names.” Slack talks about being inspired by Gary Winogrand at the end of his life when Winogrand started taking photographs of anything, photos that look like accidents. Winogrand said, “Any moment can be something.”
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OBVIOUS
3 Bank on Fire Polk St , SF
“TRY TO PHOTOGRAPH ONLY THINGS THAT DON’T HAVE
NAMES.” Mike Slack
EVERYTHING IS QUIET 09
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Weeds and Wildflowers Chinatown, SF
“ANY MOMENT CAN BE SOMETHING.”
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Gary Winogrand
SF
Mannequin on Filmore
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NYC Community Gardens Lower East Side, NYC
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Surprised Stranger North Beach, SF
Roadside Found Art Kyoto, Japan 18
in Window UCLA 21
Reflection
Exposed Foundation
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Sutro Bathes, SF
, SF
Cage
Balloon in Stagnant Pool
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Sutro Baths, SF
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Peeling Posters Soho, NYC 27
Window, Humboldt County 28
Driftwood
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lance Shields is an artist based in San Francisco. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied new genres art. He was raised in the mountains of San Diego, CA and while growing up in the small town of Julian, CA he was introduced to film photography by his science teacher. Throughout the 1990s he was an installation artist and eventually transitioned to digital and virtual art in the early 2000s. Thirty-five years after his first experiments with a film camera, in 2020 he made the decision to return to photography and is an emerging photographic artist. Lance lives in the Bay Area with his wife and dog.
www.lanceshields.com
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This is a photographic art book by Lance Shields capturing things that cannot be named. This book was self-published by the artist and all images are copyright protected. Please request permission to republish or make copies.
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