"Adam in later life" -- Kentucky 1990

From the "Adam" series contemplating long-lasting separation from God, immersion in sorrow, the longing for forgiveness, the fallenness of Man

Adam, Eve & the kids - 1990s

More on Adam . . as Barbie's -- and some SX-70 dabbling

Sarah - New York, 1990

The image that caused the big controversy when exhibited in Madison, WI in 2000 (see clippings below and "Photoflap" video)

Bascom Hall - University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002

Sophia and I had been seeking out locations that were public and not derelict but which stood empthy much of the time for one reason or another.

Bascom Hall

"God"

Sophia just started writing GOD on the blackboard unprompted. Her presence in these environments seems to ask questions and give meaning; hence "a picture."

Wisdom - 1997

Sophia is my main model these days. Here, at seven, she is Wisdom in the Wisconsin State Capitol.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Sophia's Breath - 1999

This is one of two images stolen from my show at the Old Post Office in Madison (1999-2000)

Liberty - 1997

Atop the Wisconsin State Capitol

The Balloon Animals Are Dying - 1994

As Sophia's balloon animals deflated, she wanted the existence of each recorded. Some Photoshop thrown in with some SX-70 here.

Sarah & Sophia in Montparnasse, Paris 2000

Brancusi's Grave - Montparnasse, Paris, 2000

Sarah has great shaped head. It has long reminded me of a Brancusi sculpture.

Sophia at St. James Park London - 1998

St James Park London - 1998

Sophia at Dr. Samuel Johnson's House, Gough Square, London 1998 I

A little photoshop experiment

Sophia at Dr. Samuel Johnson's House, Gough Square, London 1998 II

Sophia, Please Write

Sophia, Phone Home

Sophia and Molly

Playing a duet in 5th grade

Sophia and Molly

Playing a duet in 5th grade

Sophia at the Tenney Building, Madison, WI 1999

At the dentist

Our dentist Bill Rhodes was a great guy.

More at the dentist

Goodbye, Grandma - Kentucky, 1998

Monastery of Christ in the Desert Chapel, 1996

In New Mexico. Thomas Merton visited here on his fateful visit to Asia in 1964

Cowtime, Kentucky, 1999

The Rhem Family

Photo by Lillian R. Abbnett, the Presbyterian Missionary who lived across the street

Daddy and Peggy

From my first roll of film (1958?) Made in the morning before dad went to work. Peg still sleepy in pajamas

Dr. T. Atcheson Frazer

Local Marion, Ky physician and our next door neighbor

Tomatoes on Fences, 1958

We had big gardens when I was growing up in Kentucky.

Lots of tomatoes. I thought they were pretty. From my first roll of film.

Mother's note

Mother used to send the packs of photographs around in letters. She wrote notes on the back in ink pen. This from that first roll of film

Me and Granddaddy

I loved my grandfather, Dr. L. F. Waters, veterinarian.

My father, 1962

Preparing equipment for the band's trip to the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida

Dyerhill Mine Crew, 1966

I worked in this flurospar mine when I was 19 to make money for college and made a few photographs there

Cow's View -- Kentucky 1995

Phillis & Pat's near Sturgis, Ky - 1994

Phillis & Pat's near Sturgis, Ky - 1994

"Lucybelle O'Keefe" - Kentucky 1995

Sarah at Phillis's in an infrared riff on both Lucybelle Crater and Georgia O'Keefe

Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009

Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009

Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009

Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009

St. Anne's Limehouse Churchyard, London - 1998

From Nelson's Column - Trafalgar Square - London 1993

A Polaroid image transfer from a trip to London with Collins to see Maggie Smith in "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Kitchen Shadows

Madison Downtown

Downtown Shadows - Madison, WI

Living Room

A double-exposure pinhole experiment

Down in the shop - Kentucky

Meatyard Grave - Bloomington, IL - 1999

The grave of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's father (REM was cremated)

"The Open Door" - Gospel Oak, England 1989

This was the 150 year anniversary of the invention of photography and so I made an "homage" to Wm Henry Fox Talbot's famous photograph since I was in England at the time.

Where's Harry?

More Polaroid experimenting. This combines a print from a slide I found in a junk shop in Chicago, an image of Sopha and a negative print of Sarah in Chicago

Legs

More Polariod experimenting. This combines a negative color print of a sculpture in the British Museum and a slide found in a junk shop in Chicago

Camp Randall Rowing Club Boathouse

Sophia joined the Camp Randall Rowing Club for a year or so in 2006

Camp Randall Rowing Crew

Heading out for practice.

Camp Randall Rowing Club

Sophia and team mates

Sophia Rowing

Sophia Rowing II

Camp Randall Rowing Club

Heading out to practing; going under the causeway bridge on John Nolen Drive into Lake Monona, Madison, WI

Camp Randall Rowing Club

Startrails

An early (i.e. middle of the night) experiment in New Mexico involving a quadruple exposure - 45 min for the star trails (somewhat obscured by clouds) and three flash exposures for the figures (More Adam stuff?)

Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997

Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997

Infrared

Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997

Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997

Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997

"Wingless Angel of the Desert" 1996

New Mexico. My only work with a model (a difficult one!) during a workshop with Walter Chappell

Lind home

Eventually Sarah's parents sold the home she grew up in in Goshen, IN. I made some photographs the last day we stayed in it.

Photoflap and photo theft news stories 2000