Lost America

Night, 60-second exposure. Red, magenta and minty green Protomachine flashlight, with full moon.

You’re being watched from an abandoned ranch, somewhere in the Mojave.  Night, full moon, 2 colors of light from 4 directions.

A ’61 DeSoto, heart ripped out and left in front of it’s glowing, canted eyes. 5 colors of light from 10 directions, in 157 seconds–all done in the total dark before moonrise.

Iconic truck-on-a-stick, flies through the stars over a freshly abandoned Yucca, Arizona truck repair shop, on a smokin hot night in July 1996. I believe it’s still standing there, 20 years later.  Page 119 of the 2003 “Lost America” book. Full moon, 160T chrome film, 8 minutes, f5.6.

This is the biggest news to come out of the Lost America HQ in . . . forever: I’m in the middle of preparing for my first major US Gallery show, which opens March 4th, 2016, at the bitchen “111 Minna Gallery” in downtown San Francisco. They are giving me the entire main room, which […]

Nothing like a giant mural in an abandoned building.  Total darkness, lit with the Protomachines flashlight.

One of the murals at the abandoned Rancho Valle Vista.  Total darkness, lit from many directions with red and warm white from the Protomachines Flashlight.

Back to the 21st Century, shot last fall, outside 29 Palms.  Exposed under the full moon for a couple of minutes, with a little warm white key light.

Office Neon Six signs from a sunset, Holbrook, Arizona, October 1996. Fuji chrome 100, all available light only, a little 2016-style Photoshop work. Once it got dark, I hit the road and shot abandoned roadside stuff, further on down the road. Most of these have never been online before.          

Abandoned motel and cafe, Harcuvar Arizona, Summer 1999.  8+ minutes on Kodak 160T film, pure full moon . . . and headlight reflections from US60 in the cafe windows.