Wes Pope
Wes Pope is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Multimedia Journalism master’s program at the University of Oregon in Portland. Pope has worked as a photo, video, and multimedia journalist for more than 25 years, including staff positions at the Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, Santa Fe New Mexican, Times of Northwest Indiana, Tri-City Herald, and Tacoma News Tribune. He has also worked as a consultant at the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining to the SOJC, Pope served as a Lecturer in Photojournalism & Documentary Studies at Northern Arizona University.
Outside of journalism work, Pope has been exploring pinhole documentary projects for the past 23 years. National Public Radio's Claire O'Neill said of the Pop 66 project: "The images are blurry and distorted, just like memories, and the sequence conveys something like the America of our dreams."
Outside of journalism work, Pope has been exploring pinhole documentary projects for the past 23 years. National Public Radio's Claire O'Neill said of the Pop 66 project: "The images are blurry and distorted, just like memories, and the sequence conveys something like the America of our dreams."
Among his publications, find:
Pop 66: A dreamy pop can camera odyssey along Route 66 (PSG, 2018)
included in
Google's "Secret Design Library"
WGN TV
Chicago Tribune
Buzzfeed
NPR Picture Show
A pinhole is a very simple optical device for obtaining a camera derived from the darkroom. This is a very small diameter hole drilled in a very thin plate. By extension, this is called the photographic camera using such a device. Wes Pope used empty cans.
Pop 66
Pop 66 is a collection of pinhole photographs of Wes Pope along Route 66 in America.
31 x 23,5 cm
115 pages
60 €
+ 5 € shipping costs
Mojave Desert, California
Pop 66 Project
Archival Photo Paper + Matte
Pinhole can
15*9 cm
Print n°1
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Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Pop 66 Project
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Trigger
Pop 66 Project
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Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
Pop 66 Project
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New Jack-In-The-Box, LA
Pop 66 Project
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Near San Bernardino, California
Pop 66 Project
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Caddillac Ranch, Texas
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Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Pop 66 Project
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Joliet, Illinois
Pop 66 Project
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Catoosa, Oklahoma
Pop 66 Project
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Cicero, Illinois
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Exotic World, California
Pop 66 Project
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Exotic World, California
Pop 66 Project
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Church where my greatgrandparents were married
Pop 66 Project
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Meteor Crator, Arizona
Pop 66 Project
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Near Roswell, New Mexico
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Saint Louis, Missouri
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Somewhere in the Texas fanhandle
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Near Barstow, California
Pop 66 Project
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