{"id":119,"date":"2010-02-19T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2015-04-28T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T22:03:08","slug":"holga-images-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Holga Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 I was asked to write a piece for Polaroid about the instant back they had developed for the venerable Holga camera.  What began as intrigue soon blossomed into full fledge love and I photographed with it exclusively for a year.  One small problem, I have never regarded myself as a landscape photographer and here I was confronted with images I liked just the way they were.  Ok, I tweaked them in Photoshop and made them brown (I tried so hard to keep them gray) but for the first time I did not blend them into collages as I had always done with landscape images I took.  The response was interesting, people responded very positively and it encouraged me to consider landscape imagery an essential part of my aesthetic.  I haven&#8217;t turned away from my collage based painterly imagery but this work is now an essential part of my thought process.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-flash-gallery-holder p3-placeholder p3-gallery-imported aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ppt-doc.googlecode.com\/svn\/p3-flash-gal-placeholder.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pp\/placeholders\/slideshow-placeholder-1000011964.jpg\" id=\"pp-slideshow-1000011964\" class=\"pp-slideshow-placeholder pp-gallery-placeholder slideshow-1000011964 mceItem\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 I was asked to write a piece for Polaroid about the instant back they had developed for the venerable Holga camera. What began as intrigue soon blossomed into full fledge love and I photographed with it exclusively for a year. One small problem, I have never regarded myself as a landscape photographer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnreuter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}