I'd want to go back and photograph when my first paternal ancestors came to this country on the coastline of Maine back around 1700. Either that or the American Revolution.
Barring being smitten... I'd go back to the cruxifiction of Christ and then in 3 days I'd be waiting at the grave site to snap photos of Him emerging from his tomb.
But, really, there are sooo many events I'd love to photograph... Pearl Harbor would be an awesome shoot. The Alamo also, if I could make a quick retreat before death found me.
I'd go to various moments when the various religions were being invented, document them, and come back to the present with proof that all religions were started by quacks and mentally ill people.
Then we'd have a chance at attaining world peace.
Either that or to the Trojan war for snapshots of Achilles and Patroclus, to provide concrete proof that Achilles was gay and not at all like the Brad Pitt characterization.
I would love to be follow Jesus around...be an honorary disciple...but "The Book of Clint" wouldn't make it into the Bible…maybe make a children’s Bible from the photos though.
I'd have to go back to August 22, 1973 to take pictures of myself being hatched. At least my parents always told me I wasn't born of them, so I figured I was hatched :P
I would love to be follow Jesus around...be an honorary disciple...but "The Book of Clint" wouldn't make it into the Bible…maybe make a children’s Bible from the photos though.
Clint
Originally posted by Clint 5:23:
"And Clint took up the fishes, ground them up and lo, they became as beef. And he took the two loaves and placed the meat betwixt them. And when Clint had seen what he had done, he began to feast on this marvel.
Jesus, having seen what Clint was doing, reprimanded him- Hey!! Those were supposed to feed the multitudes!"
I'd go back in time simply to be Douglas Adams' photographer while he was writing Last Chance to See.
And maybe WWII for a chance to shoot some photos during the war.
And probably what I'd want to do most is take photos of the famous dog Hachiko, and his owner while the owner was alive, and for many years after he had died, up until Hachiko's death. I'd than make a photobook on it. I think it'd be the best photobook in history that is of the same subject.
I'd go back to the 20's and get really awesome pictures of cute flappers and dapper men in suits. I'm not looking to change the world just get some really cool action/fahion shots.
I'd go back in time simply to be Douglas Adams' photographer while he was writing Last Chance to See.
-Hideo
Adams was working with Mark Carwardine on this book; Mark is a photographer (as well as a conservationist) so I suspect you'd be relegated to secondary photographer but I have to say, I'd love to be with the two of them (and yourself) on those trips too. I know Mark and he's a great laugh and travel companion; I bet Adams was too. And as I'm really into wildlife this would be right up my alley!
My other trips would all be to see wildlife that is now extinct or critically endangered --- I'd relish the chance to do this though I know I'd find it very sad too --- to really see what has been lost.
Gotta start with the Big Bang, then fast forward to the first distant human ancestor that crawled out of the ooze. Then some shots of Antarctica before it froze, and a short tour of ancient advanced civilizations before the Europeans arrived and sent them all to hell in a handbasket.
