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Despite the deliberate calculation to make an image, she said, “any image’s success almost always depends on an elusive and often unexpected element – a gesture, relationship or even changing light. It doesn’t always happen, but when it is does it’s magic.
This month, we spoke with Melinda Blauvelt about the role of staging in her photography and the making of Brantville, her latest photobook published by Stanley Barker in 2024. As she describes it, every image in the book is, in some way, "staged." In a remote village where people were unaccustomed to being photographed, they were collaborative, engaging in the theater of image-making with curiosity and excitement. Working with her 4×5 Deardorff, Blauvelt recalls, "To make a photograph, I set up my large tripod and wooden camera and disappeared under the dark cloth to adjust the image that was inverted on the ground glass. Then I emerged and watched carefully, waiting for an expression or gesture or, occasionally, even a cloud to move, before making an exposure."


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