Saturday, December 30, 2006

Selle Collection Big Mural Project


Andy Eskind, Dave Mount and I are working on a preliminary proposal to create for the city of San Francisco a very large mural consisting of up to one-million street vendor photographs in the Joseph Selle photographic archive. An accompanying website would offer enhanced information about the project and interactive access to the entire image-base -- myriads of recorded glimpses of people passing by. The building-scale mosaic and website would stand as a monumental public artwork and a tribute to the passing street life of a major american city.
The big question now is what to call the project. So far I've considered: The photographer of Modern Life; Modern Life through a street vendor's lens; Streetwalking with a lens; Streetwalking on a Ruined Map; Photogeography of the City; San francisco street life through a photovendor's lens; Post WWII street life in...; Bystander; Street Scan: Sanfrancisco. Please help! See:
Big Mural Proposal
Selle Animation
Selle Roll H

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