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artist book with mixed media photography including B/W & Color images shot with Holga and pinhole cameras. Edition of one. bound artist copy
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days at homeWolfgang Hastert
Take pictures of(not necessarily in this order):
Walk with dad in the middle of winter
Our garden—everything snowed in
Same walk with Dad/ Spring time(remember where we stopped and studied the trees)
Breakfast, Dad taking his pills
Pretend—as if I were a boy again/Looking up at Mom & Dad (try low angle shoot)
Mom & Dad together (difficult)
My father, my son
Dad’s shoes on the rack—drying
My small and trusted alarm clock
Cleaning up at the orchard with Mom
Dad’s tools—all in order
When everyone sleeps—the flash freezes time at night
Pictures of me and the street gang
At the cemetary with Mom
My tools for recording time,memories and dreams:
Dad’s old ZEISS NETTAR camera
My HOLGA pinhole camera
Use the old NIZO Super 8 camera— 24 frames per second! (only two rolls of KODAK Tri–X left)
How will I get the film rolls through airport security on my way home to California?
visits back home
december 8–22may 18–30august 26–september 21stseptember 28–october 3rd
Imagine a world in which there is no time—only images.
We all have our time machines. Some take us back to memories and some propel us forward to our dreams.
1 Back home, the world is arranged by mechanical time.
Each day at the same time the meals are prepared.
Lunch is eaten exactly at 11:30. Medicine is taken
after each meal. Occasionally, there is a short glimpse
of “body time” when one listens to their heart beat
and to the rhythms of desire. A time when family
talks about childhood pranks and memories. And the
laughter of the neighborhood kids during the long
days of summertime.
( 4 page spread )
2Cameras have something in common with clocks:
They are machines for measuring time, allowing
light for a split second to travel through the shutter
and expose the film. For the pinhole image, time is
not controlled by the mechanics of the apparatus
but by the hand of the operator who spends time
with his subjects.
3Every person lives in their own time back home.
All clocks tick at different rates. In the time for
a leaf to fall in one person’s life, a flower could
bloom in another’s.
4The world at home is arranged. During the dark
silence of the night, the instant of a camera flash
illuminates the dark for a split second and
records memories of the father and child.
5The mother wants the child to be at home. For her,
he is still an infant, as if no time has passed since
birth. But the child has grown older and moved
away. For the mother, the change in time is visible.
Birthdays, marriages, and death are the true sign
posts for time passing.
( 4 page spread )
6Time is not continuous. It stops and starts in little
flickering increments as it is recorded at 24 frames
per second and pretends to show real time.
7For the child time moves slowly. It rushes from
moment to moment. The child is barely able to wait
for the rest of his life. Whereas the elderly wish to
halt time as it darts by so quickly.
Late September 2010
When I was sitting next to my father’s
bedside, he said to me in one of our last
conversations: “I wish I could turn the
clock back some years. I reckon, I was
once like you are now.”
I wish to thank
Jenny Yoshida Park and Arno Rafael Minkkinenfor mentoring the making of this book
Alan Lightman for inspiring my thinking about time through his novel Einstein’s Dreams
About the making of the book
All images were shot on film and then processed and digitally scanned at Chrome in San Diego.
The paper is Moab Entrada Rag Bright 190 gr.
Days At Home was printed and bound at Evidence of the Hand by Jenny Yoshida Park in San Diego.
Edition of one, November 2010
Design by Wolfgang Hastert
Image & Text © copyright 2010Wolfgang Hastert
filmgang books, San Diegowww.wolfganghastert.net