Photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops. - David Hockney
In the early 1980’s I started exploring blur in photographs created by motion of the photographer rather than the subject. I was spending too much time commuting and started photographing people or dogs in cars or trucks next to me, but I found that I was more interested in the blurred landscape I was whizzing past.
I started photographing landscapes and people and streets from the side window of my car using a slow shutter speed to create complex blurs combining the movement of the car and of my hand as I panned the camera.
In 1985 I had shows in Madrid and Seville Spain of these photos which I printed on glossy cibachrome paper.
I started photographing landscapes and people and streets from the side window of my car using a slow shutter speed to create complex blurs combining the movement of the car and of my hand as I panned the camera.
In 1985 I had shows in Madrid and Seville Spain of these photos which I printed on glossy cibachrome paper.
In 2017 I had developed an increasingly debilitating familial tremor which made it impossible to hold a camera steady. Inspired by Hockney and using a digital camera with slow shutter speeds, I resumed my exploration of motion blur, this time with my husband driving.
In 2017 a different gallery in Seville saw some of my 1980’s cibachrome images and wanted to reshow them together with my new digital photos of the Andalusian countryside. That show happened in June 2019.
Since then I have continued to explore the accidental blurs recording the complex motion of my Cyclops camera in my tremulous, but not paralyzed, hand while riding in a car on the bumpy streets and roads of Northern California.