These May Day photos were made before I had Messrasters for my 35mm cameras. They are, focus-wise, inaccurate, compared to most other
photos on this site, most of which other photos were focused with the Messraster focusing device (see the paper on focus at www.anstendig.org).
However, the photos are a documentary of a police state trying
manically to enjoy itself, or to act like it is enjoying itself, and
I feel that I made excellent artistic lemonade out of a universal technical lemon, namely the inability of almost all cameras to focus
accurately. After all, I did photograph before I had the Messraster.
However, art is control. Controlled order. Without control, sound or
images are simply noise or formlessness, except by where they are art
by accident. The Messraster freed me artistically and technically,
giving my art the requisite control.
But these images remain worthwhile as my artistic interpretations of
a particular quality within an age.
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