The Photographer's List

Every photographer has a list, a list of things she wishes she's lucky enough to shoot in her lifetime. The things on my lists are:

• things at night*, and how they look in day time
• the forlorn and forgotten, ghost towns, cemeteries deserted mines, etc
• power plants (especially nuclear), inside of data centers, high tech ruins
• people with their parents, grandparents, in mug shot 
• people at work (all jobs are equal, prostitutes should be next to politicians)
• the Salton Sea 

(I had only started on the first one.)

Some famous photographers' shooting lists (from the book "the ongoing moment", highly recommended):

Robert Frank

a town at night, a parking lot, a supermarket, a highway, the man who owns three cars and the man who owns none, the farmer and his children, a new house and a warped clapboard house, the dictation of taste, the dream of grandeur, advertising, neon lights, the faces of the leaders, the faces of the followers, gas tanks and post offices and backyards...

 Walker Evans

People, all classes, surrounded by bunches of the new down-and-out.

Automobiles and the automobile landscape.

Architecture, American urban taste, commerce, small scale, large scale, clubs, the city atmosphere, the street smell, the hateful stuff, women's clubs, fake culture, bad education, religion in decay.

the movies.

Evidence of what people of the city read, cat, see for amusement, do for relaxation and not get it.

Sex.

Advertising.

A lot else, you see what I mean.

I once saw Diane Arbus's list in an exhibition. Needless to say it's interesting.

* See Gas Station at Night and Night Wandering