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Images From My Phone
Joel Grey
powerHouse Books
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
120 pages
ISBN: 1576874850
EAN: 9781576874851
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
On an out-of-town trip in 2007, Joel Grey found himself in a
small St. Lucie, Florida museum, filled with bizarre and
eminently photographable objects. Feeling, as he had with
the images that became 2003's Pictures I Had to Take,
compelled to capture these provocative tableaux, but without
his trusty Nikon Nikkormat by his side, Grey did the
next-best thing he could--he reached for his cell phone. Grey had never had any use for the camera function of his
Nokia 133 before, and was skeptical about the capabilities
of its tiny 1.3-megapixel lens. But to his surprise, the
same familiar perspective he'd always had when taking
photographs was still there; even without a viewfinder, he
could make the kinds of pictures he had always loved to
make. The limitations of the format--the inability to
control the aperture stop, focus, or any of the other
variables of traditional photography besides framing--proved
a thrilling new challenge, which Grey likens to
"collaborating with a power larger than yourself." Grey
spent the next eight months shooting with his phone, and the
result is 1.3: Images from My Phone, a collection of slices
cut from diverse visual worlds: street art and still life,
advertising and architecture, shadows and reflections,
natural beauty and urban grit.
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