The seventh dummy

And the third one from Oslo this week, from the same day again.

The M7 with the 35mm Nokton, Tri-X in Rodinal.

Torso

Only the torso of a display dummy in this picture from Hamburg. I liked the light.

Taken on January 27, 2010. The M7 with the 35mm Summicron, Tri-X in Diafine.

Dummy no. five

Here it wasn't the display dummy but rather the TV screen in the shop window that caught my attention, but the photo fits into this small series anyway.  Oslo again, February 13, 2010.

The M7 with the 35mm Nokton, Tri-X in Rodinal.

Dummy #4

A display dummy on the street in Berlin. March 3, 2010.

The M7 with the 35mm Summicron, Tri-X in Rodinal.

Dummies in Oslo

I decided to do a "theme week" starting today. The next days will all be about display dummies and we'll start with this one from Oslo, taken on February 13, 2010.

The M7 with the 35mm Nokton, Tri-X in Rodinal.

Display dummies

Life can certainly be easier if you're famous. If you are for example Miles Davis (without question one of the greatest Jazz musicians of all times), people will be interested in your ball pen scribblings and they'll end up in galleries. And if you are Heinz Schubert (a pretty good German actor), people will be interested in your photographs of display dummies and they'll end up in a book and even at the documenta.

I personally don't think that Schubert's photos are very good, but I like the idea of photographing display dummies and I do it myself a lot. (And I already did it before I knew he did.) I'll explain why I like it on another day.

Taken with the M8.2 (at ISO 160) in Genoa on July 5, 2009. The photo was slightly cropped.

Headless

This picture of a shop window in Hamburg is the first film photo on this blog that was cropped. And it was a considerable crop. In fact, I shot the photo in landscape format and then cropped a portrait format section out of it because this is how I should have framed it originally. Even after taking photos for more than 15 years I still don't think of using the camera in the upright position often enough.

Taken in January 2010 with the M7 and the 35mm Summicron. Tri-X in HC-110.