July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
July â71 is as much a record of the daily experiences of light and shadow as it is a catalogue of domestic life. More involved with âstraight photographyâ than Brakhage, but far more engaged with tactility and the plastics of the image than Jonas Mekas, this early work embraces the mundaneâmaking bread in the kitchen, riding bikes by the San Francisco Bay, hanging out in a cheap-looking flat with friends, plucking a game fowl for supperâwhile also paying attention to the wind, water, and trees that surround these fleeting moments.