Pop's Diner - Part 2

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Waterfall in Escalante Canyon (see below)

This is the second portion of my handmade book from 1989. In several instances, as just below, when there are crossovers (landscapes that stretch across the full length of the book when it’s open), I’m first printing the entire spread, and then the individual pages full-sized.

Note to photographers: many of the images here are pasted-together 50 mm shots, rather than photographic panoramas or wide-angle shots, which distort reality. A 50 mm lens is the way I see the world, and pasting them together gets the proportions right. (And I mean pasting them together on a sheet of paper, not a computer.)

Part of this influence as I mentioned before, came from Robert Frank, and also, a tip of the (Hatlo) hat to David Hockney, whose book David Hockney Cameraworks (one of my favorite all time books) showed me how to paste prints together to get breathtaking images — and not worry about having things line up perfectly.

Funny thing,: as I’ve been putting this together for Substack, I’ve been reliving the trip — the canyons, the hot springs, the barns, the incredible Southwest USA all over again. I’m riding shotgun, as I hope you are, on this two week trip.

2nd cross-over spread in book. Below are individual pages.

Two-page spread; full, sized pages below....

To be continued…