Boston, Massachusetts. I’m standing in one spot in an underground transit station. As passengers scurry to and from the train, I’m repeatedly capturing still-images, shooting from the hip, handheld and at low exposure in a radius of 180 degrees. After a short while, I have a ragbag of images that are not only sequential. They have the potential to form an image together as a whole.
The result is a multi-layered panorama with an ever-changing border of jagged angles, set in motion like a shuffling deck of cards. Nearly 40 still-images are layered, skewed and aligned above, underneath and from end to overlapping end. Using Photoshop’s imaging and new animation tools, these multi-directional images had to be forced back into a single view of the station that sequences through each image every half second.
I call these moving images, Echotypes, in the spirit of early photography such as the Daguerreotype or Calotype. And, they are echoes in that they record the multiple reverberations of existence.
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Green Line. Boston. (Echotype #1)
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America's oldest subway station is adorned in green and misplaced modernism where once ornate and stylish trains hauled passengers "inbound" and "outbound" to this station.
