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| Belinda Carr |
Sometime in the mid 90s there was an art gallery that
featured straight photography. It was called Exposure Gallery and it was on
Beatty Street. By straight photography I mean that the gallery had group shows
and themed shows that at the time would never have any relevance in the more
artsy galleries of our Vancouver.
The relevance of the photograph here is that I did a
joint talk with fashion photographer Chris Haylett on figure and fashion
photography lighting. I wrote about it here:
Belinda Carr and Rip Georges All Over Again
For my talk I took three b+w Polaroid negative film. When I checked my files on Belinda Carr, the model who posed I found no Polaroid prints. This is because I gave them to her.
That Exposure Gallery was a place where photographers
got together to chat about the photographs they took before capture came into
the lingo in the later digital age.
Unlike Gallery 881 on East Hastings, those group shows
brought us to the same place and the openings were fun. There was little
pretension as the proof of the pudding was on the wall.
Key to the above photograph and much of my success as a photographer in Vancouver is that Angie at Beau Photo in the early 80s sold me a Metz focusing spotlight. I bought many metal gobos (go-betweens) and not photographer of that time had or used one.
I could not resist so I sandwiched the other two Polaroids.
