Click by Click, black and white sequential photo stories, 1970-1990

Black-and-white photo sequences taken during the 1970s and 1980s for the Des Moines Register were an obsession of mine. I’d shoot them, print them and tape them together — often in an accordion-like strip — then offer them to an editor with caption information. From a historical perspective, it was a time when video as a news and entertainment medium was just emerging. The sequences were my effort to bring a bit of movement to the still photography I was producing for news and feature newspaper pages. I always felt like the sequences were a visual game, that there would be some kind of punch line at the end. But, as in the series called “DAMN PICKUPS,” where a dog was lying in the middle of a country road, I couldn't always predict what was going to happen — I just had to wait and see, which was half the fun of it.