Bus Stop – Shelby Square, Detroit 1984 – Pigment Print

The Peripheral Vision Portfolio are works connected to the “Peripheral Vision” blog from Bill Schwab, where he shares stories of selected alternate photographs from his archives of never before-made-available prints. All come as high-quality pigment prints signed by the artist.

Title: Bus Stop – Shelby Square, Detroit 1979
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Having graduated high school in 1978, I had initially decided against college and spent a “gap year” working as a plumber. Good job skill and pay, but I was feeling left behind with all of my friends off at school. Having now realized that college was the way I wanted to go, I had decided to follow my passion of photography and go for a fine arts degree. I had recently purchased my first new camera, an Olympus OM-1 and was getting serious with it in my explorations around the city. I was already enrolled in school and waiting on summer session to begin. It was during that time that I made this image in Detroit’s Shelby Square. At the time, all I was seeing was the graphic quality and I thought it was probably the best photograph I had ever made. It continued its place as a prized image in my portfolio for several years until I lost track of it in the volume of imagery I was now creating. What I find wonderful in my rediscovery of this photograph is that it contained so very much more than that graphic quality that caught my young eye. The things a 19 year-old doesn’t perceive, but are there all the same.”

Edition: Peripheral Vision – open
– Pigment Print
– 7 x 5-inch image size
– 8.5 x 11 Hahnemühle Baryta
– Signed, titled, and dated by the artist on reverse
– Unmounted