Buenos Aires: Street Art / Arte Callejero, originally uploaded by ClixYou.
I’m off to Argentina and Uruguay on Thursday, November 29, 2007. I’m super excited because I just picked up a Seagull 107 TLR – with “three element picture taking lens”. From what Liz tells me, due to economic difficulties, Uruguayan and Argentinian cities were frozen in architectural time at some point in the 1970′s, with cityscapes today looking like sets of that time-period. She mentioned that even with the cars on the road you’ll see more old ones than new ones. Well, if I’m going to be visiting that environment, why not shoot it with equipment from that same time period? Sure my Seagull is new (ebay-new), but the lens and mechanics of that camera have changed little since it was first introduced. Consider it a kind of “method-acting” for photography.
