Byron Coleman Jr
Five decades of frames. No corrections, no selections. Exactly what was in front of the camera.
One record. Nothing removed.
This is a photographic archive, not an exhibition. Every image is presented as shot — grain, exposure, composition, and all. Nothing has been corrected to tell a cleaner story.
Some years are dense with frames. Some stretch thin. That unevenness is part of the record.
Four decades, one archive
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s –>
The earliest stratum. Film stock and available light from the first decade of the record.
The record deepens. Domestic interiors, familiar faces, the same places in different light.
Digital capture begins. The texture of the images changes; the subject matter does not.
The middle of the archive. Continuities and gaps become visible across the decades.
About the archive explains what you are and are not looking at — how the photographs were kept, what was lost, and why nothing was fixed.
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