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Polaroids from the set of Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW

in honor of their new blu-ray of Down by Law (which is out today!), Criterion has posted a collection of Polaroids from the set, photos snapped by assistant cameraman Jack Anderson while Jarmusch was testing certain set-ups for the shoot. on the back of each Polaroid, Anderson jotted down all the pertinent camera details that Jarmusch would require for production: t-stops, lens types, focal distances, etc…

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artpedia:

Jeff Wall - A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993. Silver dye bleach transparency; aluminium light box

Artist Statement: 

When I was making A Sudden Gust of Wind I knew I wanted to show how the air could carry the papers. Hokusai had already solved some of these problems. If you analyse his composition, you realise that many of the little pieces of paper coincided with very important points of the rectangle. He composed something that had a feel of the accidental. It was not accidental, but he knew how to make it look that way. I thought that the only way to achieve that was to first create chance situations, to create a lot of movement and then just have a lot of materials to edit. So we created a way a lot of paper could be moved in the air and then tried to think of both the rectangle and the invisible air current in three dimensions. As the papers move in depth, they move away from us and get smaller. I just worked hard on it and tried to compose. There is no guide, its just a feeling, a sense of real, how things are really are or would be . 

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