BLACK & WHITE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY ...continued
PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED
with respect to these images
"Such are the two ways of the Photograph. The choice is mine: to
subject its spectacle to the civilized code of perfect illusions, or to
confront in it the wakening of intractable reality." -Roland Barthes
THOMAS #1
Miami, Florida 1997
Hasselblad 503CW, Planar 80/2.8
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Thomas Dewitt is sixty four. He lives
alone in a tiny room at the rundown Charles Hotel on Collins Ave. in South Miami Beach. His
most treasured memories are of surfing in Hawaii. Maybe they really happened.
MALIA #1, SOLICIT
South Florida, 1997
Hasselblad 503CW, Planar 80/2.8
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Malia is trying to make
it alone. She hasn't seen her parents since she was twelve; nor does she know
of their wherebouts. Malia is a prostitute and seems not to know of, or believe in any other
way to survive. She barely makes rent. Just the other night Malia was left
stranded in the boondocks without money and with a two hour walk back to
her motel room. Some days she gets a gun "shoved in her
face" by some jerk who is not going to pay. She'd like to work for a call service
but can't make it that way. Malia has a good heart.
MALIA #2
South Florida, 1997
Hasselblad 503CW, Planar 80/2.8
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It is a privilege and honor to provide
Malia with a few hours of employment as a real model in place of what she
normally does. Within her limitations and without training she did
very well. Later I ask why she turned in her left pinky? Because, she
replied, "my nail was broken."
SHIRLEY
South Florida, 1997
Hasselblad 503CW, Sonnar 250/5.6
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Shirley is my next door neighbor and
was gracious enough to sit for this portrait.
LaTasha hails from Tennessee where she
left her children with her parents. She believes they will fare
better than her because "they go to school." LaTasha was shot in a disco. The
bullet entered her back, just missing the spine and exited below the right
breast. The surgical scar runs from the navel down... She has many scars on
her hands and arms from fights. When I compare "LaTasha" to "TRIANGLE" on the
next page the discrepancy just blows away my mind. And it is nobody's fault;
just something about the cards we are dealt.
OAK CREEK CANYON
Near Sedona, Arizona 1998
Hasselblad 503CW, Planar 80/2.8
MISSOURI BOY
Shell Knob, Missouri 1998
Nikon F4S, Nikkor 50/1.8