It is done. It is up. You can see the full show here (link). Thank you Ulf for making me get this together. I am a Slacker (and if you haven't seen the movie, watch it) and would not have made the effort on my own. The show is composed of 120 images. That is a fraction of what I have. Trying to select was getting the best of me. Finally, though, we decided that this would be a "living" permanent exhibition. The images will rotate in time so that people can come again and again and see things they've not seen before. I like that.
Now I am weary unto death, and want to go to bed for weeks.
But I feel the need to post the first "Liberator" photograph taken by me. This is Mike, the hipster camera guy who fixes all my old and broken toys and to whom I gave the wrong Graflex to turn into "Frankencamera." The exposure is off--way too underexposed--but I am documenting, so. . . . You can see evidence of the tilt/shift lens in the out of focus areas. I took only four photographs this weekend, for I was busy getting together this show. I have done nothing to this "Liberator" image other than scan it and correct for color and contrast. There is no hoodoo here. But I will work and more pictures will come. It is just a matter of time and effort. What else is there but that?
Still this: what are the chances that I can get "Lonesomeville" made into a book?
Wow, serious collection of images, I'd not realised you had done so many (I only came across your site recently), they're great - have you looked at publish on-demand for books? Mind you I don't know what the print quality is like these days...
ReplyDeleteLove the portrait of your friend, looking forward to seeing more...
The exhibition is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteImpressive...
I'm speechless, well, almost.
So cool!
Congratulations, Selavy!
Extra big XXX!
I think the picture of Mike is just lovely...perfect in fact! So real yet ethereal at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI can think of two artists involved with publish on demand: Cecil Touchon uses Lulu.com for his Ontological Museum Publications, and Jim Linderman at Dull Tool Dim Bulb publishes through Blurb.com.
ReplyDeleteHere are my favorites from Lonesomeville (and why):
#9 - The sadness
#37,40,44,46,57,116 - In general I am attracted to the composition of these, the way the model fills the frame.
#16 - I know how she feels
#26 - Can't put it into words why
#27 - Slightly tragic
#30 - Like the attitude
#32,33 - Combination of pose and expression, and in 32, the red!
#60 - The fan and the Marilyn hairdo
#68 - The way her gaze draws you back to her face despite the fascinating patterns on her skin
#89 - On the edge of madness
#114 - The pose reminds me of a Balthus painting
Common to them all I like the edges which emphasizes the fact that these are photos and that the composition has been planned from the beginning with no cropping after the fact to fix a mistake. The combination of color and surface imperfections is marvelous!
L, Nice to meet you. Yes, there are more images than imaginable. I have enough for several books. I am wanting someone else to publish it, though. What do you think. Taschen? Goliath?
ReplyDeleteN, Thank you. But you are not speechless :)
R, Thanks. Let's hope I get going and that there will be many, many more. The next ones will look more like "straight photography" than the last.
A, Wow! You did look at them. Thank you so much. I will go through the show with your list in hand. It is nice to have someone else give an analysis.
I would love to see Lonesomeville as a book.
ReplyDeleteI have given you publicity that you haven't asked for. You may not care or even notice. Only the unluckiest few follow my ramblings.
ReplyDeleteHey Wolfe Tone
I want to be one of the unluckiest few but the Wolfe Tone link didn't work. :(
ReplyDeleteTaschen, I've got several great books of their's, Africa by Sebastião Salgado springs to mind - lovely book. Not so familier with Goliath.
ReplyDeleteUlf, Me too!
ReplyDeleteWT, Cool site. It was quite something to read about my work. I kind of dug it. Of course I did.
R, The link works for me. I am one. . . .
L, I just went to your blog. Some cool stuff there (including me). I'll be back to it.
Thanks, yeah its my web scrapbook, there is so much cool stuff out there - including your site of course :-)
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