I spent the first couple years of my photographic life unconsciously trying to make photos that looked like stills from the The Shining. I was an accidental Cindy Sherman – with a fraction the talent – drawn to every symmetrical layout I saw, every looming geometry I found myself under, and every bit of spooky simplicity I could locate.
I still eat up any new interpretation to be read in to The Shining, and Rob Ager’s 21-chapter thesis might just be the definitive, end-all be-all compilation of deconstructions, examinations, and insight in to one of my all time favorite films.
Start with chapter 16, then go back, read the rest, and watch the movies he made about the impossible layout of the film’s set. Amazing.
Brian Ulrich, “Dead Malls, Dead Negative”
One of my favorite photographic acquisitions; a screwed up sheet of 8x10 film Brian gave me on one of his visits to Michigan to shoot Dark Stores.
