Ed Templeton: Wayward Cognitions /anglais - Tapa dura

Teenage kissers. Teenage smokers. These are the very distinct themes by which the photographer Ed Templeton has organized his work. But for his newest book of photographs, "Wayward Cognitions" (Um Yeah Arts, out in October), Templeton dispenses with categorization and instead culls a loose collection of images from his 20 years of travel as a professional skateboarder and artist. They capture the kinds of fleeting moments that are the hallmarks of classic street photography. Templeton shot all of the images on film, printed them in his home darkroom, scanned them and then laid them out for the book. "Part of me laments the fact that I am doing all of this work myself," he says. "The computer part is soul-crushing amounts of time in front of a screen. I say I wish I could just make the prints and hand it off to be made by designers. But then I realize, 'who am I kidding? I'm a control freak.' If you want it done right, do it yourself. And if it's bad you only have yourself to blame." Here, T gets an exclusive first look at his labor of love.--Jamie Bradley "The New York Times "

Wayward Cognitions is a collection of photographs by Ed Templeton (born 1972), chosen from his archives spanning 20 years. For this volume, Templeton selected photographs that do not fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject. In past publications he has arranged his work in straightforward groupings such as Teenage Kissers, Teenage Smokers, or photographs shot from a moving car (as in his book The Seconds Pass). In Deformer he presented the photographs under the theme of suburbia. Wayward Cognitions represents the in-between moments that arise when shooting in the streets without theme or subject. "It's about looking, people watching, finding pleasure in the visual vignettes we glimpse each day," says Templeton. When those moments are removed from the context in which they were shot, dynamic stories can be told or imagined in book form. The photographs in Wayward Cognitions were printed by Templeton in his darkroom; he then created the layout and design himself, building the book from scratch in his home studio.