San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.
— Pat Montandon

Temporal Atlas: San Francisco

2015

 

This project was a conceptual installation piece. Starting from downtown San Francisco, each day involved walking in a new direction, at a different time, and in changing weather, making a photographic negative every 10 minutes. The photos were developed and printed as silver gelatin prints and mounted on boards. These mounted prints were arranged on a black background, roughly from morning in the northeast at thee top right to evening in the southwest at the bottom left. The city’s hills were represented by lifting the prints from the background on stands of different heights. They were then woven together by white cotton tape, symbolizing the city's grid of streets. This gallery shows copy photographs of the prints from the project sequenced into chapters.



Day 1: North, early morning, rainy

 

Day 2: East, mid-morning, partly sunny

 

Day 3: West, midday, overcast with occasional drizzle

 

Day 4: Southwest, mid-afternoon, partly cloudy

 

Day 4: South, late-afternoon, mostly sunny