美"自拍之父"30年每天自拍一张 记录衰老过程
Professor has taken a selfie every day for the past 30 years
Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it every day for the next three decades.
在"自拍"出现前,卡尔-拜登就每天拍下1张自己的黑白照片,接下来30年,他每天都这样做.
Baden's "Every Day" project officially turns 30 on Thursday and he says he has no intention of stopping. The stark contemplation on mortality and aging has prompted some to dub the Boston College professor the unwitting "father of the selfie."
拜登的"每日"计划到上周四正式满30年,但他表示没想停下来.拜登这种忠实审视死亡与衰老的做法,让他获得"自拍之父"的封号.他是波士顿学院的一名教授.
He recognizes the ubiquity of the selfie has helped raise the profile of the project, which has been exhibited in art galleries in Boston, New York City and elsewhere over the years.
他承认自拍风潮帮助他的项目提高了知名度,这些年来,照片在波士顿、纽约市等地的美术馆展出.
"If it wasn't for the selfie craze, I'd probably be slogging along in anonymity as usual," Baden joked this week. "Which is sort of what I had expected."
他本周开玩笑说："如果不是自拍热,我大概会和以前一样匿名拍照片,那也是我之前希望的."
What makes the project work is that it reflects a number of universal themes, from death to man's obsession with immortalizing himself in some way, said Howard Yezerski, a Boston gallery owner who has exhibited the project on two occasions.
曾两次展出照片的波士顿一家画廊的主人Howard Yezerski表示,拜登的照片能一直拍下去,是因为照片反映了很多普遍的主题,从死亡到人类某种对不朽的执迷等等.
"It's both personal and universal at the same time," he said. "He's recording a life, or at least one aspect of it that we can all relate to because we're all in same boat. We're all going to die."
他说："这是个人的,同时也是普遍的.他在记录一段生命,或者至少是生命的一方面,我们都与此相关,因为我们都在同一条船上,都会死亡."
Baden, 64, quietly launched his project on Feb. 23, 1987, the day after Andy Warhol died and nearly two decades before Facebook emerged. He tries to remain faithful to that first image, posing with the same neutral facial expression and using the same 35mm camera, tripod, backdrop and lighting.
1987年2月23日,现年64岁的拜登悄然开始了他的自拍计划.摄影师安迪•沃霍尔前一天刚去世,距离脸谱网问世还有将近20年.他尝试拍下与第一张相同的照片,采用同样的面部表情,使用相同的35毫米相机、三脚架、背景和灯光.
