NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days, or, roughly, 18 years. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time on March 13, 1979.
His last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer on October 25, 1997.
And so I ask you, how strong is YOUR commitment to a creative life?
Enough said.
Here’s the site where most of the images are scanned in…
[Thanks Lee.(via this…)]
sad ending for the artist…
And nowadays people think a “photo a day for a year” is incredibily long…
What a great beginning and ending photo for this project. I.N.S.P.I.R.A.T.I.O.N
Just wow. I’m amazed, impressed and also saddened by the last image, of course. What an incredible historical document to leave behind.
I tried doing the ‘image a day’ thing a few years back and it was actually the creativity issue which got to me. Every image, every day had to be, as far as I was concerned, better than the day before, and it ends up being a rod for your own back that you can’t possibly live up to. If you approach it from a purely documentary angle then I’m sure it would be a whole lot easier, but unfortunately I got caught up in the pressure to keep on impressing myself. Not a good idea.