Wilmington, Delaware, 1978, 35mm slide
© Brian Rose

Continuing going through my slides from 1975 to 1980. I was looking at a lot of painting as well as photography during those years, and I was thinking about how far you could reduce down an image and have it still be about real things and real space.

Interstate 95, North Carolina, 1978, 35mm slide
© Brian Rose

As flat as the image above is, I would never have taken this picture without including a sliver of deep space–the sky ad pickup truck on the right. Both of these photographs were made on the road, traveling south. As reductive as they are, I was keenly aware of what they were photographs of–the chalk scrawls of children playing in a Wilmington, Delaware parking lot, and a soda machine set against a gas station wall along Interstate 95 in North Carolina.