Digital Color Checker

A single image interpreted 140 times and based on Stephen Shore's iconic color photograph, "Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975." I drove from Norman, OK, to the intersection in Los Angeles in January 2011 and used a digital color checker to interrupt and interpret the scene. 

8.5"x11" prints were made after "correcting" for white balance after sampling each of the checker's colored tiles. The series is arranged as a grid corresponding to the format of the checker as well as the built environment surrounding the intersection.

I was interested in finding a formal way to describe my own resistance to the idea of, and impulse for, color correctness by using the very malleability of contemporary digital color. In doing so, I tried to make a space for a non-hierarchical encounter with any single image. 

First Photograph(s)

Check out my dream project—still only a proposal—but one that if I can make it, shares a lot of formal and conceptual ties to Digital Color Checker. Would be cool to exhibit them together is one space!