When Being Obsessive Pays Off
Earlier this week BoingBoing pointed to an LA Times article about obsessive, Los Angeles-loving photographer Martin Schall. In only ten visits to the city of his dreams over the last eleven years, he’s amassed a collection of over 1,700 images.
His monumental pictures bring to mind Bernice Abbott’s photos of New York, and made us think of photographer Douglas Levere’s project to re-photograph, so many years later, her famous images.
Beyond the inspiration of these photographs themselves, comes the reminder that dedication, hard work, and good-old-fashioned repetition can be what brings our photography out of the everyday and into the realm of the truly meaningful.
—Debbie Grossman
Maybe if Debbie Grossman was more obsessive about learning how to spell the photographer she's writing about wouldn't have to worry about his obesity.
Posted by: Ima Illiterate | April 19, 2007 at 07:39 AM
1700 pictures in eleven visits only comes out to 170 pictures per visit.
If these visits are only for three days at a time that is pretty good. But if it is a week or more that is nothing.
However if these are exceptional photographs that is astounding.
Posted by: Lynn Powers | April 19, 2007 at 11:53 PM
Hey Ima,
OK, there's a typo in the title. But we got the photographers right!
Debbie
Posted by: Debbie | April 20, 2007 at 12:19 PM