Rocky McCorkle is a large format photographer who wants to
bring the movie experience to the museum.
McCorkle’s series of 135 large-scale photographs titled You and Me on a Sunny Day is conceived as a silent film in the form of a sequence
of stills. The works, seen in order, tell the story of an elderly woman
recollecting, and at times dreaming about, her deceased husband and his youth
as a champion long-distance runner.
All of the interior shots were made in the
artist’s own San Francisco apartment, which he transformed into a complex
mise-en-scène for the unfolding narrative.
To complete his monumental project,
McCorkle spent every Sunday for five years photographing his downstairs
neighbor, Gilda Todar, in the lead role.
The astonishing clarity and richness of detail in the prints
is the result of a painstaking process of shooting up to twenty-two individual
high-resolution photographs for each final image, using digital technology to
create a fantastically seamless montage.
Every Sunday evening for five years, McCorkle brought Todar
(1927—2017) up for a photo shoot on a set that he had spent all week decorating
as if it were the 1950s. It took half an hour to make one image, and the next
week they did it all over again — a process slower than clay animation.
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| Gilda and Rocky |
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