Photographs of Houston by Tom Richmond
Wherever he goes, his trusty Nikon goes with him, and his favorite 28 millimeter lens. His still photographs have the same slightly unsettling quality of evanescent beauty that one sees in his movies. Moments are captured which seem mysteriously filled with implied meaning or significance: something (gone now? invisible) lingers in the image, seducing our puzzled attention. Whimsy, irony, elegy, celebration... combining and re-combining. Some photographers in their pictures make periods. Others do commas, or ellipses, or exclamation marks. Tom Richmond does gently probing question marks. He recently returned for a few days in Houston, his adoptive home city, which he has photographed many times over the years. This trip produced a one-off photobook, called "Serious." We are pleased to share the work with our readers. Note: the original pictures are 3 x 5, so the works you see here are considerably reduced in size. To reproduce the effect of looking at the photobook, each screen below contains the two pictures on each pair of facing pages. You can view the pictures in sequence by using the "next" link at the bottom of each page. Or you can use the following contents list to skip about. Serious:
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