I can be real dogmatic, in my work, when I’m trying to get to the expression of some grand or clever idea. And that’s, you know, useful. At the same time, I always seem to have some line on something more abstract, more open-ended and maybe just pretty. Which, pretty is important too. In advertising, [...]

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Thirty Inch Pearl Strand with Diamond-crusted Clasp

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And with this, I think I’ve exhausted the Wells Fargo corporate archive. Until they ask me to shoot more of their stuff. I imagine it would be rather difficult to create a walking mascot for First Interstate Bank. Or the seventh one, I guess. Emily Polar. No pun intended. Yours, truly.

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One more from the Wells Fargo corporate archive.

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Black Bart being much more famous than James Hume, of course, but this wallet of mugshots belonged to Hume. It’s so precise and uniform. And filled with rogues. It’s quite a contrast, Hume’s methodical stalking, versus the likely chaotic lives of his targets. I’m pretty sure only Black Bart gets a full page, however. But [...]

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These are a pair of doors that once closed up a Wells Fargo Depot, to safeguard the gold and silver inside. Except that now, they live inside the San Francisco museum. Even if you did get past those doors, you’d still be confronted with something like this.

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Here’s a selection of bank notes, part of the Wells Fargo Bank corporate archive that I photographed for the book, Time Well Kept. Of course, it’s presidents on the bills now, but back then it was any old Treasury Secretary they could find. Old Ben Franklin on this one (and his drinking buddy, I guess). [...]

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