Social Landscapes 2

During the same 35 year period I was shooting with 4x5 cameras, I was also shooting B&W with an 8x10. Why both? I once read on someone's blog that the 8x10 camera could photograph the air between objects. And I wanted more detail in some of my images. Adding to that, I loved being under the dark cloth with a 8x10, the view upside/down and backwards presented every image as an abstract. That was true of the 4x5, also, but with the 8x10, the image is four times bigger. I only printed these images as contact prints because I didn't have an enlarger for that size negative. It wasn't until I could scan the negatives, and have access to large format printers, that I could see just how great these images could be. In the fall of 2011, along with my friend, Stephen DiRado, we exhibited six 40x50 inch prints each. Enlarging an 8x10 negative to 40x50 inches is like enlarging a 35mm negative to 5x7 inches.