Portfolio: Paul Cary Goldberg
On photographing Dogtown
(Artist Statement)
This terrain astonishes. I am walking, breathing, touching, smelling, hearing, seeing — what? Is it the heart of Gloucester? Is it merely this moment, in this place, on this day? (As if that was mere). Or is it the whole way back to the start of time? Am I now propelled into the future?
Dogtown: ecstatic, wondrous, frightful, foreboding. Try capturing that with a camera.
Note: These photographs were shot on film using a “toy” camera with a plastic lens, the Holga 120S, purchased about 30 years ago for $25.