Chicago: This trip happened on about 36 hours notice. It's short, only about three and a half days, and packed fairly full. I didn't expect to have time to shoot. But just hours before leaving for the airport, Claudine e-mailed and offered to shoot. I called her after arriving, we talked this morning, and squeezed in a shoot early this evening.
It was cool and rainy all day, so we shot in her lakefront apartment. It's well lit, windows on two sides, sparsely furnished, even minimalist. And it's... white. White walls, white ceiling, white drapes. There are three B&W prints in white frames and white mats, shots that Ralph Gibson took of Claudine. I'm flattered that she's asked me for two prints from our first shoot, to hang alongside those prints already on her wall.
Toward the end of the shoot we pulled back the drapes, shot with the adjacent high rises in the background. Since it was still light out, I'm not sure if anyone was able to see well enough to enjoy the show... they would have needed to look in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. We didn't care.
I shot enough digital to know I've got plenty of keepers; the black & white should be even better. The light was a little tricky, but worth the effort. More importantly, after the ambivalent feelings of recent weeks, this was a fun shoot. There wasn't much conversation while we worked, because there didn't need to be. Things flowed effortlessly.
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