2001

Billboards made such eloquent commentary on society's ills and benefits. The image is a picture of an actual billboard near Cheraw, SC, that I shot at night by electronic flash in 1971. The imagery is as you see it here - this is not a collage. I have no idea what the poster was trying to sell, or how it got into the dilapidated condition you see here, but there it was, and I recorded it for posterity. Not that posterity would otherwise have suffered. Anyway, it remained in my collection of odd photos for all these years till I went looking for something to inflict new abstraction techniques on. The abstraction doesn't interfere with the original subject, but makes the image much more intriguing, I think.

Nikon 35mm camera, 105mm f:2.5 lens. Tri-X film rated ISO (then ASA) 400, electronic flash, with open camera shutter. Several flashes were required to expose the film, as the camera was many feet from the subject.