Keeping Track of Your Work


Recently I was asked about my photographic documentation
projects. I had no real overview of what I had been doing
for the last almost twenty years. So I made the chart
below. It may be a useful model for others.

I have also inserted, above, a graphic I have made of my
career so far.
MK
Yr Major Work  [Bold is books, 2 and italics is second edition. Underline is grants.]		 1
2
1998 1998 My point is that much of what I have been doing in my photographing is not about individual iconic images, although there might well be some, drawing from contact sheets, as do art photographers or photojournalism. Rather it is documentation of what there is in the world, All or Many or a Large-Sample. Hence tens of thousands of images, All of which matter as a whole. Even when I was using film, but more easily with digital. 3  
1998 1999 Since the early 2000s (actually 1998 or 1999) I have been doing systematic photographing--All or a very large sample.  Eg. mattress cars, …. 4 54
2000 2000 What's Wrong With Plastic Trees? 5 56
2000.08 "Persian Palaces" of Beverly Hills 6 56
2001 2001 Haynes: Storefront Houses of Worship in LA 7 57
1999.05 2001.04 Large-Sample of the storefront churches (a very larger number, 800) in LA, facades and symbols, inside the services (2005) 8 57
2002 2002 Haynes: Industrial Neighborhoods 9 58
2001.07 2003 Industrial LA streets and the establishments (2002-2004) 10 59
2001.08 2002.1 All the LA Department of Water and Power electrical stations,  11 58
2003 2003 Doing Mathematics 12 59
2004 2004 Haynes: People at Work in Industrial LA (2004-2006) 13 60
2004.07 2004.07 Many stores in several commercial districts,....  Vernacular Visual Merchandising 14 60
2004 2005 Many (225) industrial sites in LA, featuring people at work, especiAlly 2005-2006)+Port (2004, 2005), County Hospital (2006) 15 61
2005.08 2005 Radio Station Traffic-Helicopter over LA 16 61
2006 2006 Haynes: Aural 17 62
2006 2008 Aural LA (2008, 2009) 18 64
2006 Vernacular Visual Merchandising 19 62
2008 USC Viterbi Media Institute--for sound equipment 20 64
2008 2008 USCMETRANS: Urban Sensing, Urban Tomography 21 64
2009 2009 Many swapmeet sellers, 22 65
2009 2009 USCProvost: Marville's Paris 23 65
2009 2009 Marville's Paris Today 24 65
2010 2010 Haynes: PicoRobertson 25 66
2009.11 2010 All the stores on Pico Blvd in the Orthodox Jewish enclave there.... .  26 66
2010 2010 GoogleResearch: UrbanSensing 27 66
2011 2011 Urban Tomographies 28 67
2012 2012 Social Innovation, City Heights 29 68
2012 2012 City Heights, San Diego, survey 30 68
2012 2012 Kauffman: Entrepreneurs, Swapmeet Vendors 31 68
2012 2012 Paramount Swapmeet Vendors and Website 32 68
2012 2012 Doing Physics2 33 68
2013 2013 Scholar's Survival Manual 34 69
2015 2015 Doing Mathematics2 35 71
2015.11 2015.11 I looked at what I have been doing in NYC since I got my place there: some time in 2016 I started photographing around  36 71  
2016 2016 NYC: Transit-Oriented Development, as it has happened: All the ends of the lines of the Subway system, as well as Many other stations, in two sweeps.  37 72
2016 2016 NYC: Many in the Subway in the mezzanines flows of people from one line to another or to the street. 38 72
2016 2016 NYCLA: But then I got interested in flows of people,  39 72
2017 2017 I did some sound surveys, not many, around my place in Union Square. (seriously 2009) 40 73
2017 2017 NYCLA: So I then photographed Many people walking on the streets of NYC, not only in Manhattan, but in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx. This was under the idea of looking at ordinary people, vs. Bill Cunningham's photographing fashion on the streets for the NY Times. Neighborhoods, business and financial, busy areas such as Union Square. Queens, Upper Manhattan, Brooklyn (where I was brought up, 8th Avenue Chinatown) 41 73
2017 LA: Rodeo Drive 42 73
2017 2017 NYC: All the cast-iron buildings on Broadway, from the battery to 30th St. 43 73
2017.1 2017.1 NYCLA: Many people walking on the streets, much more dynamicAlly, paying attention to the succession of people in a flow, in Manhattan and a bit of Brooklyn during October 2017, as well as people on the Subway (eg. 37 images of three women talking to each other on the Subway).

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