picturecrossing
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ABOUT
THE PICTURES
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- about the artist
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| "Picturecrossing
Pictures" are all instant
photographs that I have left at random locations around the world. They
were shot with one of my instant cameras, making each of them a
one-of-a-kind piece of artwork, individually signed, numbered, and
marked on the front with "picturecrossing.com" If you have come across one of these pictures you can find it here: These "Picturecrossing Pictures" are never sold or given directly to anyone by me. The only way to acquire one is to find it where I've left it which makes them quite rare indeed. I suspect that most of them are casually ignored by passers-by until they are blown away, or thrown away ending up in a rubbish heap. Sometimes I leave them near where they were taken. Other times they are left far away or "crossed" with separate pictures. For example: PX No.42 of a post in front of an abandoned farm house near Brooksville, Florida was "crossed" with PX No.35 of a stack of red pallates behind a Home Depot in Port Richey, Florida. The Picture of the farmhouse was left on the pallates, and the picture of the pallates was left on the post in front of the farmhouse about 40 miles away, effectively linking the two locations through my photographs. If you have found one of my "Picturecrossing" pictures, please eMail me to find out more about it and tell me the story about how and where you found it. Then you may keep the photograph, or leave it somewhere else for another person to find, thereby sending each little captured frame on its own journey, giving infinite life to that one moment in space & time. I'll be posting the findings to document the travels of each of the images. You can see many of the pictures I have left so far and where they have been left. FIND the
Picturecrossing Pictures OR Browse my GALLERY of Polaroids for sale. NOTE: Prior to 4/3/2008 the pictures left at various locations had a different web address on them: lancephoto.com/photocrossing. This was before I was able to acquire the picturecrossing.com domain. "picturecrossing.com" begins with No.19. |
I'm currently
shooting with these cameras: (but constantly acquiring more) -view as gallery of cameras- CAMERAS FOR SALE COMING SOON Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100 - (LC) (1963-66) Polaroid Sun 660 (1981-86) - (S6) Polaroid Freitag Edition SX-70 (2007) (FSX) Polaroid SX-70 (1972-77) - (SX) Polaroid SX-70 Alpha I Special Edition (1977-79) - (SX) Polaroid One Step Close-Up (OC) Polaroid One Step Rainbow (OSR) Polaroid Big Shot (1971-73) - (BG) Polaroid Colorpack II (CP) Polaroid (red) Electric Zip (EZ) Polaroid Spectra (1989-95) - (SP) Polaroid Spectra Onyx (OX) Polaroid M5 Medical Macro (M5) Polaroid Tasmanian Devil (Taz) Polaroid Mio (2002) - (MIO) (Holgaroid) Holga 120 SF (HR) Fuji Instax 500 AF (FX) - view as a gallery of cameras - Yes, I'm aware that Polaroid has stopped making their instant print film but I do have quite a stock in the "film fridge" including many of the wonderful Fuji Instant Films. Additionally we are all hopeful that The Impossible Project will succeed in their mission to reinvent intergral film. |
 I am Lance
Aram Rothstein, an American artist from Florida presently living in the
Village of Mons in Belgium.
My artwork is about identity, relationship, and perfection. I use a variety of different media to investigate these concepts and how they are purveyed and perceived. While my "choice of weapons" is most often a camera, I sometimes use paint, collage and digital kung-fu to acheive my atypical results which are commonly categorized as "abstract." More precisely, they are highly influenced by the philosophies of the deStijl, Dada, and Bauhaus artists of the early 20th Century. The Polaroid pictures you will see on this website, are not digitally doctored in any way as I consider them to be documentary. |
