Anonymous office building

All this week I’m sharing single-subject photo series I’ve made.

The very first series I made was of an office building in which I used to work. It was just like any other office building anywhere. But it was the one I walked into every day, and I often had an old camera with me, so I shot it frequently.

I was very happy working here until the big company bought us and ruined everything.

Sunrise across the anonymous office building

Palm Pre

Anonymous Office Building

Polaroid Big Swinger 3000, Fujifilm FP-3000B

Anonymous office building

Olympus Trip 500, Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400

Anonymous office building

Olympus Trip 500, Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400

Anonymous office building

Yashica Electro 35 GSN, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Pentax K1000, 50mm f/2 SMC Pentax-M, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building double exposure

Kodak Tourist, Kodak Plus-X

Anonymous office building

Minolta Hi-Matic 7, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Agfa Optima, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Kodak Pony 135, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Kodak Pony 135, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous Office Building

Canon AF35ML, Fujicolor 200

Double exposure

Argus A2B, Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros

Anonymous office building

Kodak Retina IIa, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Pentax ME, 55mm f/1.8 SMC Pentax, Kodak T-Max 400

Anonymous office building

Kodak Brownie Starmatic, Kodak Portra 160

Anonymous office building

Olympus XA, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Minolta 110 Zoom SLR, Fujifilm Superia 200 (expired 12/2003)

Anonymous office building

Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 80, Kodak T-Max 400

Anonymous office building

Nikon N65, 28-80 mm f/3.3-5.6 AF Nikkor, Fujicolor 200

Psychedelic anonymous office building

Argus Matchmatic C3, Fujicolor 200

Anonymous office building

Polaroid Automatic 250, Fujifilm FP3000-B


Comments

10 responses to “Anonymous office building”

  1. Ekin Azhari Avatar

    Interesting

    1. Jim Grey Avatar

      Thank you!

  2. DougD Avatar
    DougD

    Once again I’ll go for the tourist double exposure as my favorite. What a way to cut your film processing costs by half :)

    Been there done that on the small company / big company thing. My employer still does that, buy a small and highly profitable company, intending to bring the technology to a worldwide market, find that bureaucratic big company structure renders it unprofitable, let it wither and cut it a few years later. Rinse and repeat, I guess the ones that work out pay for the ones that don’t.

    1. Jim Grey Avatar

      I hated that Tourist camera! Half of my exposures came out double. That might have been more user error than camera error though…

      What you describe is exactly what happened to the company in the anonymous office building pictured.

  3. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    “I was very happy working here until the big company bought us and ruined everything.” A common, sad, American story. I’ve been there.

    After looking at your ‘wreck’s’ sign, shed, and now this series – I like Fujicolor 200 best.

    1. Jim Grey Avatar

      It’s my go-to film. It’s inexpensive, it’s easy to get, it performs predictably, and it looks pretty darned good.

  4. Kurt Ingham Avatar

    I love these ‘multiples’ of the same subject. Dates might make them even more enjoyable!

    1. Jim Grey Avatar

      You can see when I took these by clicking through to see them on Flickr!

  5. Kevin Thomas Avatar
    Kevin Thomas

    I love this! I’m finding myself in the same boat, shooting things around my current office building when testing recently acquired cameras. Like you, I’m a big fan of Fuji C200, sad that I can’t get it at Walmart anymore.

    I’m surprised at the Argus C3 shot, but… when they work they are sharp and clear, however wrestling them into submission isn’t always an easy task

    1. Jim Grey Avatar

      That whole roll thru the C3 was odd. Check it out: https://blog.jimgrey.net/2012/11/14/argus-match-matic-c3/

      I had better luck with another C3 later: https://blog.jimgrey.net/2017/08/16/argus-c3-2/

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