Extra Images From Push Process: 3

All the published photos in Push Process are printed in black and white, and the vast majority were also shot on black and white film, but about one quarter to one third of the photographs I took in Venice were actually shot on colour negative, or (particularly for 35mm) colour slide film. Indeed, six of the images in Push Process (about 10% of the total) are converted from colour originals. 

Here are three other colour images in their original glory. The first is a rare close-up, which is about the transition from analogue to digital: I mean that it juxtaposes a manual ticket-stamp machine at a vaporetto stop with a digital swipe machine. The new machine had already replaced the old one – some time in 2004 I think – but the latter had yet to be removed. 

The second image is of the ‘back’ entrance to Piazza San Marco, though I was more interested in the pay phones: I was always trying to place the classical version of Venice within the modern infrastructure that makes our encounter with it possible. In this case, the pay phones are now a historical, obsolete example of that infrastructure. 

The third image is of the car ferry that runs between Tronchetto and the Lido (and other locations around the edges of the lagoon). The last two images have the acid colours of uncorrected artificial lighting.