Captain Jack���s Wharf
Nonetheless, George Hirose���s photographs are contemporary.
After midnight, many lamps are still on in town, and one can
often see in his prints a line of light etched by a car as it comes
around a turn. The composer of these photographs was ready
to accept whatever unforeseen changes occurred after opening
his camera shutter, as his pictures often required a many-second
exposure. Hirose works only with available light; he illuminates
none of his settings with auxiliary aids. Like Joel Meyerowitz,
he is a photographer with the instincts of a hunter. One stalks
the desired result, one waits, one does not dictate the given,
one looks rather to meet it.
HYLAND
