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Media Artists Melinda Stone and
Igor Vamos initiated and executed the Photo Spot
Project for The Center, installing over 50 "Suggested
Photo Spot" signs at selected sites from
coast to coast. Sights designated as a "Suggested
Photo Spot" include the tailings pile of
a copper mine and the waste water treatment facility
for the Kodak company's headquarters. But the
spots are not selected simply according to the
function of facilities or land uses at the site.
The criteria for selecting the Spots primarily
relate to tourist photography issues, based on
visual and aesthetics considerations, and a sense
of what might be "photogenic". "In
most cases, you have to be there to fully get
it", says Stone, "the pictures we take
of the Photo Spots represent just one aspect of
the site, but the project is really about the
interaction of viewers with each location".
Click
here to view a selection of Photo Spots.
The project has been documented in a number of
ways:
* Postcards, showing the sign
in the foreground with the "sight" in
the background, have been produced for each Photo
Spot
* A video of the project has been made by Melinda
Stone (shown at Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley,
California, and at the New York Video Festival,
1996)
* A guidebook to all the "Suggested Photo
Spots" has been produced, with pull-out postcard
pages
* T-shirts with the PhotoSpot logo
* Souvenir viewers, in the form of miniature cameras,
show a selection of PhotoSpotsThe Photo Spot project,
with associated artifacts, was displayed in an
art show at the University of California, San
Diego in late 1995.
Purchase
a copy of Suggested Photo Spots
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