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Posted on September 19th, 2009 in Art & Theory, Collodion Images, Europe, Family, Wet Plate Collodion Instructional Videos, nazis, politics | Leave A Comment
I have a couple of really important goals that I want to accomplish in the next few months. One of them is to make work for my project, exhibition and book.
I thought I would get creative with my time and my commitments. We are leaving Thursday for ten days and wanted to post the October Video Podcast on Chemical Pictures before we left. I also had an image in mind that I’ve wanted to make for a few weeks. I thought, why not make a few plates, create an image for my project and cover the podcast, too? So that’s what I did today.
These image are about numbers, labeling, skulls & sockets, history, evilness, genetics and otherness. I distressed plate #3 a little bit. I varnished it shortly after making this copy and it cleaned up quite a bit - I was a little disappointed about that but I still like the image. I look so different in each image, it trips me out a wee bit.
It took four plates to get two that I really like.
Self Portrait #3 With Y-DNA Sequence Backwards (written by hand)
September 19, 2009 Viernheim, Germany - 8×10 Alumitype
Self Portrait #1 With Y-DNA Sequence Forward (not handwritten)
September 19, 2009 Viernheim, Germany - 8×10 Alumitype
Posted on August 2nd, 2009 in Art & Theory, Collodion Images, Europe, politics | Leave A Comment
I’ve been working through making Albumen, Albumen paper, and started making negatives today. I really enjoy making work in my studio - in my space. I feel completely in control and can get on the plate what’s in my mind more efficiently (lazy and scared, huh?).
Today, I was fortunate to have some very interesting sitters that were very cooperative. I only made four negatives, but I’m very pleased. I wanted to share one of those with you. I’ve been after these kinds of images in the negative form for a long time. The problem with making them, is keeping the sitters interested. I usually get them fired up after the first (positive) image. With negatives, however, there’s no “high wow” factor. It’s difficult, and it’s kept me from making this happen. No more, this is what I’m going to concentrate on for the foreseeable future (negatives and Albumen prints).
There a lot of things I like about this image; texture, light, expression, but most of all, I like what the image implies. It’s disturbing, or disorienting, and interesting to me. Make sure you click on it to enlarge it.
Posted on May 1st, 2009 in politics | Leave A Comment
Posted on January 26th, 2009 in Dachau, Education, Europe, Kristallnacht, politics | Leave A Comment
Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers - it began with words
Jan. 26, 2009
IRWIN COTLER , THE JERUSALEM POST
On this United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, words may ease the pain, but
they may also dwarf the tragedy. For the Holocaust is uniquely evil in its genocidal singularity,
where biology was inescapably destiny, a war against the Jews in which, as Nobel Peace Laureate
Elie Wiesel put it, “not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims.”
Let there be no mistake about it: indifference in the face of evil is acquiescence with evil itself - it is complicity with evil.
Nazism succeeded, not only because of the “bureaucratization of genocide,” as Robert Lifton put it, but because of the trahison des clercs - the complicity of the elites: physicians, church leaders,
judges, lawyers, engineers, architects, educators and the like. As Elie Wiesel put it: “Cold-blooded murder and culture did not exclude each other. If the Holocaust proved anything, it is that a person can both love poems and kill children.”
Read the entire article here.. thanks Mark
Tags: gas chamber, Jews, murder, national holocaust day
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