Diversions
February 2014 |
Overdrive
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So ran the beginning of an August
post by Pete Brook on Wired maga-
zine's "Raw File" blog about a truck
photo series from New Jersey-based
Michael Massaia. His amazing night-
time shots of trucks were captured
with one of the oldest photo technol-
ogies available – a large-format view
camera.
Brook detailed Massaia's process,
in which he manipulates the 8-by-
10-inch negatives with "Pyro staining
developer, similar to the process used
by now long-deceased photographers
Ansel Adams and Edward Weston."
Contact platinum prints allow for the
wide tonal range.
As for "seeing the black dog,"
Brook wrote, it's a phrase used by
truckers "to describe hallucinations
that occur as a result of sleep depriva-
tion," namely "black dogs scampering
across the highway." Red Sovine used
something similar for the story in his
classic "Phantom 309," voted No. 9
in Overdrive's 2011 all-time-greatest
trucking songs list.
Massaia, who deals off and on with
insomnia, set out to capture the black
dog environment via night photog-
raphy in and around Jersey Turnpike
rest stops and elsewhere in the state.
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You can see this and other
truck photos on the website of
Michael Massaia's representing
gallery, IrisGallery.net.
'Have you
seen tHe
black dog?'
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