Phone Photography by Joel Grey

By jodycakes | October 21, 2009

How many times have you been somewhere in the last 3-4 years and whipped out your phone to use as a camera? 
I, myself, do it all the time…and I’ve gotten some real interesting shots of people and things that I normally wouldn’t be able to capture ‘cos I didn’t have my real camera.

Joel Grey, 77, best known for his Tony- and Oscar-winning performance in “Cabaret” has also used his phone to catch moments that would otherwise pass him by…he has been quoted as saying, “The thing about the phone is that it’s always with you.”

He used his Nokia 133, with a 1.3 megapixel camera to shoot for about a year, as he travelled, catching scenes like the one below.  He collaborated with Sam Shahid and came up with the book, 1.3: Images From My Phone (Powerhouse Books, 120 pp. $29.95)

Check out his website here.

And his Flickr photostream

joel-grey-photo

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6 Comments

  1. lindaloohoo
    Posted October 21, 2009 at 8:13 am | Permalink

    evidently joel likes to hang out in the red-light districts. hey, at 77, who doesn’t?

  2. OhMyHead
    Posted October 21, 2009 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

  3. OhMyHead
    Posted October 21, 2009 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

    Bah! No HTML! And preview before posting. :( You’ll just have to clicky. :)

    http://www.houseofal.com/ljimages/chiuncamera.jpg

  4. jodycakes
    Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    his stuff is SO interesting to me!!! Yeah, why the hell not at that age!!!

  5. Sharron
    Posted October 22, 2009 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

    HUH?

  6. OhMyHead
    Posted October 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    Ooooh Sharron. Your input ROCKS. Isn’t “HUH?” Ozzy’s line?

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