Doble Photo Influenced By Jackson Pollock

Painting, 1948 Art Print Pollock, Jackson Buy at AllPosters.com

It would be hard to underestimate the influence of Pollock's paintings on my work. In 1966 I spent a year pouring over a large art book of his work and then drove to New York City twice from Durham, NC to see his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967. I even painted a number of large paintings in his style (really). How does this relate to my photography? One local art critic said that I was 'action painting with a digital camera'. And that is not a bad description. Somehow Pollock's legacy gave me the freedom to move with my camera in any way that worked -- that created an interesting photograph. I did not put any limits on my motion and was willing to experiment.