BLACK & WHITE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY ...continued
"...Arbus, who was by profession a fashion photographer-a fabricator
of the cosmetic lie...Arbus' work is reactive -reactive against
gentility, against what is approved. It was her way of saying fuck Vogue,
fuck fashion, fuck what's pretty."
-Susan Sontag ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Diane Arbus killed herself in 1971
THE PALL BEARER
Trenton New Jersey 1992.
Russian Orthodox Church Funeral.
Nikkor 180/2.8 ED
"I'm morring my rowboat
at the dock of the island called G-d."
-Ann Sexton
"The Rowing Endeth"
FOLK SHRINE FOR BOBBY AND EDDY
County Road, Monmouth County, New Jersey 1991.
Their vehicle hit this tree and Bobby and Eddy were dead. Bobby and
Eddy were brothers. The shrine at the tree was put up by their highschool
classmates. Inscribed in the small New testament were the words "Bobby and
Eddy, we will always remember you."
Nikon 8008, Nikkor 28/2.8
RUNNING BROOK
Middlesex County, New Jersey 1992.
A kind of place I like to be.
Nikkon 8008, Nikkor 28/2.8
IN MEMORY OF UNCLE JUAN GARCIA 1907-1997
Hollywood, Florida 1997.
He was a good and gentle man who helped lots of people!
Konica Hexar 35/2.0
"Look up. Your life is suddenly
ending-"
-Lise Goett, from Labyrinth in "Waiting for the
Paraclete"
CART LADY
Orlando Florida, 1993.
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be... Emily Dickinson 1830-1888
Nikkor 180/2.8 ED
LORRAINE KANE AND RICHARD
State mental home, Monmouth County, New Jersey 1992.
Nikkor 50/1.8
"flee on your donkey,
flee this sad hotel,
ride out on some hairy beast"
-Ann Sexton "Live or Die"
OUR BABE or BITTERSWEET
A Portrait of Grief.
"Yea Old Robbins Burial Ground Since 1695."
Near Robinsville, New Jersey 1991.
Walk Softly, A Dream Lies Here.
"Can no one bring me back a child? Why should a dog,
a horse, a rat bare lips--at "them"--you'll build great
engines yet and taller towers, our dust will tremble to
far greater wheels; have you no engines then to bring back
sixty seconds of lost time? "
Thomas Wolfe, The Good Child's River
Nikon 8008, Nikkor 50/1.8