looking back as an obsession: old houses, armchairs, automobiles, feelings – about the photographer Christopher Hall / deadslow at flickr
title=”Oakland Station 0047″ photo via flickr.com by Dead Slow / Christopher Hall sent to my flickr group BLOG IT! – click on the photo to enter his collection…
Christopher Hall published also two books via BLURB:
Home is where the car is
He describes: “Classic cars photographed in suburban neighborhoods. The series came about when I started to realize how many of these scenes reminded me of the era and places where I grew up as a child. Eventually, finding and photographing these scenes became somewhat of an obsession…”
http://de.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1206986?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=280×160
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title=”West End Town” by Dead Slow / Christopher Hall
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and
Going Nowhere
http://de.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1808864?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=280×160
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title=”Florida Street” by Dead Slow / Christopher Hall
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Christopher Hall says, he was influenced by the photographers Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz and! Eggleston
related (interviews in German language with many photos):
http://kwerfeldein.de/index.php/2011/04/03/im-gespraech-mit-christopher-hall/
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http://www.ignant.de/2009/09/23/christopher-hall/
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https://twitter.com/#!/frizztext/status/165756062232879104
Flickr Comments 
gorgeous!!
are all beautiful ….. I fall in love more and more!
Thanks so much for these beautiful images that make me find out!
On the Brooklyn Bridge is really that color?? 🙂
sometimes in the movies is not like him!
baci
Ivy
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dear Ivy, living in Italy,
compare a photo shot in another big hall / room large as a station in: Naples
title: “Sedil Dominova Sorrento Provincia di Napoli”
by the Italian photographer Davide Cherubini to understand via comparing
the special mood of dead slow / christopher hall, San Francisco:
title=”Reading the Newspaper” by Davide Cherubini
at first I’ve introduced Davide Cherubini,
who also published a BLURB book at
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oh yeah!
Italy offers many artistic ideas, such as Rome, its picturesque streets, old people are so fragile and full of experience.
Then note how much you make me some details are similar though so far.
(but the bridge is equal or not??)
🙂 vento
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The chairs look so small. Wonderful place.
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after an earthquake 1989 my dear friend near Fukushima in Japan …
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I see. I hope his safe. 🙂
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There’s some much in this photo. The glorious window; it’s shadow; the mantle piece, the decayed doors and those armchairs… it’s a photo you can truly get lost in for a while.
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I think, the kind of “bird’s view” down from the ceiling, seems what made this photo unforgettable?
the photographer C. Hall comments for himself:
“The former Southern Pacific train station in Oakland. It’s been abandoned since the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. I’ve been scheming to get in for a few years, and got my chance today. It’s a beauty…”
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my wife Barbara, a professional photographer, made also some series in a famous abandoned architecture near Berlin, the BEELITZ HEILSTÄTTEN; maybe because she is a woman she prefered to have at least one human being on the picture:
P.S.:
Christopher Hall lived as an American Soldier some decades ago in Berlin too (compare his BERLIN photo series: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadslow/sets/72157605407668375/ – if you visit his galleries) now his residence is in San Francisco …
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All the photos are good but Barbara’s is outstanding, there’s a story or a hundred in there, could I use it as a prompt?
Also how very sad that these buildings are just left to decay.
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send the link to me or post it here …
maybe you like to read my article
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Gorgeous photos. I love the lighting and the history that shines through the image. Just beautiful!
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What awesome captures. The first photo is soooo cool! Margie
Thanks for the weekly photo support Frizz!
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Thank you so much for the mention here, I greatly appreciate it. I wanted to say there’s a small set I also did at Beelitz-Heilstätten about four years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadslow/sets/72157605471450153/with/3654112952/ It was such a great location, I wish it wasn’t so far from home, it’s worth the time to travel there.
Again, thank you. Ich wünsche allen ein schönes Wochenende
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hi Christopher Hall,
of course, you’ve shot great photos there in BEELITZ HEILSTÄTTEN too:
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compare another one, shot by my wife Barbara there:
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when I visited the SET “OAKLAND STATION” in the galleries of Christopher Hall
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadslow/sets/72157600057741174/with/4729726373/
I noticed, that he tried to feature the windows’ light on the floor
like my wife did in an old factory near my hometown in Germany:
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Wonderful post! Thanks for the intro to this great photographer.
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i could spend absolutely forever in a gallery of your photos….oh the inexpressible joy and luxury of being able to go from photo to photo to photo and back again…..your talent, your photos…they move my soul. thanks for sharing.
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The first photo is awesome! The chairs, although ornate, look lonely.
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love the first photo….I feel a little like Alice in Wonderland… The size of the chairs…the size of the window, the room size…..did I swallow a pill and fall down a hole? What a great photo!
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I love this group of photos! 🙂
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What an incredible space…
those chairs really lend a sense of scale…
and isolation…
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