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Opening Scenes Safe Harbor Books From the Preface: I am at heart a storyteller—affected and attracted by mystery, by antiquity, by echoes of the past; by forms and shapes and empty places; by people in their everyday moments. My world is defined best in shades of blacks and whites and grays. Throughout my life I have been intimately involved with motion pictures; they are part of my being. My grandfather, father, and uncles were pioneers in the motion picture industry, connected with cinema from its birth. I have been a producer-director, a motion picture executive, a university film educator, a documentary filmmaker. Not until 1987, when I was 55 years old, did I turn to still photography as my art form. Those years when I was immersed in—and in love with—all aspects of cinema inevitably led to the developing and refining of my vision as a photographer. So I think of my photographs as cinematic. I am a filmmaker creating silent movies in single frames. I see movement in each frame, a story ready to unfold, or the ghost of a moment just passed. I come upon an image that resonates in me, which evokes thoughts, feelings and emotions from my life experiences, and I am compelled to press the shutter of my camera. This connection to my subject forms the essence of the photograph. But your communication with each image, not mine, gives the photograph its only meaning. There are 53 movies in this book. Each one is yours alone. —Norman Seider
Reviews “Norman Seider’s work has a European and American sensibility. There are stories and ghosts with each image. His light is mysterious. There is poetry and there are things to discover in the photographs which are very black and white.”
Links Norman Seider's website: http://normanseider.com/
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