Name/Title
Building Construction, 1978Entry/Object ID
2007-012.E410PDescription
Building Construction, 1978. These five black and white contact print strips were created for the Lacey Leader newspaper. These images show a building under construction. Image 32 shows a section of wooden wall framing. This image is oriented vertically. Image 33 is very similar to the previous image, but here the image is oriented horizontally. Image 34 shows five men working on the building. The three men in the upper portion of the images are looking down at a fourth man in the lower-left corner of the image. This man at the bottom is facing away from the camera and looking up toward the three men in the upper half of the image. A fourth man with long hair wearing a baseball-style cap is visible in the background near the bottom of the image. Image 35 shows two men working on the building. The man on the left is further away from the camera and he appears to have just pulled a small item out of a pocket in his tool belt. This man has loosely curled hair and a mustache. He is wearing a t-shirt and jeans. The man on the left is pounding a nail. He has a beard and is wearing a t-shirt and jeans. Image 36 shows a scene similar to that of image 35, but here the photographer has moved to the opposite side of the framing wall the two men were working on. The man with the mustache's head and arms are visible as they are sticking through the wall on the right-hand side of the image. The lower half of the other man's leg is visible sticking through the wall closer to the left-hand side of the image. Image 37 shows a portion of the framing wall. The fingers of a man' right hand are visible grasping one of the wall studs near to the right-hand side of the image frame. A portion of the side of this man's head is visible through a gap in the wall at the right-hand edge of the image. In the bottom-left quadrant of the image, the lower half of a man's left arm is visible sticking through the frame wall. This man is wearing a patterned, full-sleeved shirt. Image 38 shows two men working on the framing wall. Both men are facing away from the camera. The man at the left has loosely curled hair and is wearing a t-shirt and jeans. This man is grasping one of the studs in each hand. The man on the right is wearing a baseball-style cap and a patterned, long-sleeved shirt. This man is pounding a nail. Image 39 shows two men working on the building. The man visible in the upper half of the image has a beard, is wearing a t-shirt, and is pounding a nail. The man in the bottom half of the image as long hair, is wearing a hat, and is looking up toward the man with the beard. The framing wall is between these men and the camera. Image 40 is very similar to the previous image, but here the man with the beard appears to be pulling a nail with a small crowbar. Image 41 shows architectural plans laid out on a table in the image foreground. A frame wall is visible in the background. Image 42 is nearly identical to the previous image. Image 43 shows the same architectural plans laid out on a table, but here the photographer has moved to their right by approximately 2 feet. Image 44 is very similar to images 41 and 42, but here the photographer has zoomed out or moved away from the architectural plans. Image 1 shows a row of long, narrow tables extending away from the camera. On this table in the foreground are architectural plans. Farther down the table are two thermoses, a lunchbox, and a dispenser cooler. The right-hand half of the back of a pickup truck is visible in the upper-left corner of the image. Image 2 is nearly identical to the previous image. Image 3 shows the building under construction at a distance. Several trees and some low foliage are in the space between the camera and the building. Image 4 is nearly identical to the previous image. Image 5 shows a man kneeling down and pounding a nail on a horizontal support for the building. The rest of the building under construction is behind the man. The trunk of one tree, some branches and some low foliage are in the space between the camera and the man. Image 6 shows two men working on the building. One man is kneeling on a large, horizontal support beam. A second man is standing on the ground and reaching up above his head with a hammer. Image 7 shows a series of frame walls arranged parallel to the image plane and at progressive distances from the camera. Image 8 is nearly identical to the previous image. Image 9 shows a bird sitting on a tree branch at the center of the image frame. Many other branches are also visible in the image.Made/Created
Date made
1978 - 1978Notes
Medium: Photographic Paper/Photographic EmulsionLexicon
Search Terms
People, Buildings, Construction