美"自拍之父"30年每天自拍一張 記錄衰老過程
Professor has taken a selfie every day for the past 30 years
Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it every day for the next three decades.
在"自拍"出現(xiàn)前,卡爾-拜登就每天拍下1張自己的黑白照片,接下來(lái)30年,他每天都這樣做.
Baden's "Every Day" project officially turns 30 on Thursday and he says he has no intention of stopping. The stark contemplation on mortality and aging has prompted some to dub the Boston College professor the unwitting "father of the selfie."
拜登的"每日"計(jì)劃到上周四正式滿30年,但他表示沒想停下來(lái).拜登這種忠實(shí)審視死亡與衰老的做法,讓他獲得"自拍之父"的封號(hào).他是波士頓學(xué)院的一名教授.
He recognizes the ubiquity of the selfie has helped raise the profile of the project, which has been exhibited in art galleries in Boston, New York City and elsewhere over the years.
他承認(rèn)自拍風(fēng)潮幫助他的項(xiàng)目提高了知名度,這些年來(lái),照片在波士頓、紐約市等地的美術(shù)館展出.
"If it wasn't for the selfie craze, I'd probably be slogging along in anonymity as usual," Baden joked this week. "Which is sort of what I had expected."
他本周開玩笑說(shuō)："如果不是自拍熱,我大概會(huì)和以前一樣匿名拍照片,那也是我之前希望的."
What makes the project work is that it reflects a number of universal themes, from death to man's obsession with immortalizing himself in some way, said Howard Yezerski, a Boston gallery owner who has exhibited the project on two occasions.
曾兩次展出照片的波士頓一家畫廊的主人Howard Yezerski表示,拜登的照片能一直拍下去,是因?yàn)檎掌从沉撕芏嗥毡榈闹黝},從死亡到人類某種對(duì)不朽的執(zhí)迷等等.
"It's both personal and universal at the same time," he said. "He's recording a life, or at least one aspect of it that we can all relate to because we're all in same boat. We're all going to die."
他說(shuō)："這是個(gè)人的,同時(shí)也是普遍的.他在記錄一段生命,或者至少是生命的一方面,我們都與此相關(guān),因?yàn)槲覀兌荚谕粭l船上,都會(huì)死亡."
Baden, 64, quietly launched his project on Feb. 23, 1987, the day after Andy Warhol died and nearly two decades before Facebook emerged. He tries to remain faithful to that first image, posing with the same neutral facial expression and using the same 35mm camera, tripod, backdrop and lighting.
1987年2月23日,現(xiàn)年64歲的拜登悄然開始了他的自拍計(jì)劃.攝影師安迪•沃霍爾前一天剛?cè)ナ?距離臉譜網(wǎng)問世還有將近20年.他嘗試拍下與第一張相同的照片,采用同樣的面部表情,使用相同的35毫米相機(jī)、三腳架、背景和燈光.
