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"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 |
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Adam, Eve & the kids - 1990s |
More on Adam . . as Barbie's -- and some SX-70 dabbling |
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Sarah - New York, 1990 |
The image that caused the big controversy when exhibited in Madison, WI in 2000 (see clippings below and "Photoflap" video) |
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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. |
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"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." |
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Wisdom - 1997 |
Sophia is my main model these days. Here, at seven, she is Wisdom in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." |
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Sophia's Breath - 1999 |
This is one of two images stolen from my show at the Old Post Office in Madison (1999-2000) |
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Liberty - 1997 |
Atop the Wisconsin State Capitol |
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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. |
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Sarah & Sophia in Montparnasse, Paris 2000 |
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Brancusi's Grave - Montparnasse, Paris, 2000 |
Sarah has great shaped head. It has long reminded me of a Brancusi sculpture. |
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Sophia at St. James Park London - 1998 |
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St James Park London - 1998 |
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Sophia at Dr. Samuel Johnson's House, Gough Square, London 1998 I |
A little photoshop experiment |
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Sophia at Dr. Samuel Johnson's House, Gough Square, London 1998 II |
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Sophia and Molly
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Playing a duet in 5th grade
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Sophia and Molly |
Playing a duet in 5th grade
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Sophia at the Tenney Building, Madison, WI 1999 |
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At the dentist
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Our dentist Bill Rhodes was a great guy. |
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Goodbye, Grandma - Kentucky, 1998 |
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Monastery of Christ in the Desert Chapel, 1996 |
In New Mexico. Thomas Merton visited here on his fateful visit to Asia in 1964 |
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The Rhem Family |
Photo by Lillian R. Abbnett, the Presbyterian Missionary who lived across the street |
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Daddy and Peggy |
From my first roll of film (1958?) Made in the morning before dad went to work. Peg still sleepy in pajamas |
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Dr. T. Atcheson Frazer |
Local Marion, Ky physician and our next door neighbor |
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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. |
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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 |
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Me and Granddaddy |
I loved my grandfather, Dr. L. F. Waters, veterinarian. |
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My father, 1962 |
Preparing equipment for the band's trip to the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida |
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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 |
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Cow's View -- Kentucky 1995 |
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Phillis & Pat's near Sturgis, Ky - 1994 |
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Phillis & Pat's near Sturgis, Ky - 1994 |
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"Lucybelle O'Keefe" - Kentucky 1995 |
Sarah at Phillis's in an infrared riff on both Lucybelle Crater and Georgia O'Keefe |
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Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009 |
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Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009 |
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Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009 |
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Ice Fishing, Lake Monona - Madison, WI 2009 |
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St. Anne's Limehouse Churchyard, London - 1998 |
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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" |
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Downtown Shadows - Madison, WI |
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Living Room |
A double-exposure pinhole experiment |
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Down in the shop - Kentucky |
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Meatyard Grave - Bloomington, IL - 1999
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The grave of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's father (REM was cremated) |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Camp Randall Rowing Club Boathouse |
Sophia joined the Camp Randall Rowing Club for a year or so in 2006 |
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Camp Randall Rowing Crew |
Heading out for practice. |
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Camp Randall Rowing Club |
Sophia and team mates |
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Camp Randall Rowing Club |
Heading out to practing; going under the causeway bridge on John Nolen Drive into Lake Monona, Madison, WI |
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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?) |
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Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997 |
Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997
Infrared |
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Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997 |
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Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997 |
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Uxmal, Mexico - Maya ruins 1997 |
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"Wingless Angel of the Desert" 1996 |
New Mexico. My only work with a model (a difficult one!) during a workshop with Walter Chappell |
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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. |
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Photoflap and photo theft news stories 2000 |
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