FRAME BREAK
Two space helmets, 2008
This is the opposite of the previous image. Far from carefully fitting things inside, we carefully break them in half, and for a good reason. On separate occasions, I shot two famous space helmets: Apollo and Darth Vader (they’re kept very far apart, one in Houston, the other in a secret warehouse in San Rafael), but wanted to show them together. Two alternatives are shown smaller here—simply side by side, and joined. This framing is too wide and, well, pedestrian. Showing half of each is that much more interesting because it’s not quite expected, and works perfectly well because the helmets, like faces, are ...
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