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Inside behind eyes looking out

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Photographs Lucille Jones, circa 1950

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Distant Cousins Lucille Jones c.1950 35mm slide converted to B&W d.jones 2020 A while back I received a box of slides that my Grandmother made in the 50's. I credit my Grandmother to introducing me to photography. It's only fitting I should acknowledge her influence. Some of these are from Grandma's slide shows.  More will be posted.

1976- Louisville Kentucky

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Willie 1976-77 Louisville Kentucky 35mm  B & W

Thank you Robert Frank.

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Shadow 35mm 2005-6 New York For the last several days I've been reading " American Witness"  The Art and Life of Robert Frank, By RJ Smith.   Frank lived with the painters, poets, writers, of the 50s,  Lived at a fever pitch.  images not for what they are but what they convey, what they feel, reveal Learned that I want to be present though invisible. The images  must be for the moment for the presence.  The Residue of the Experience.  Images that live in a deeper place   

Slip Stream

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Slip Stream 8-13-2019 Digital proof 

Slip Stream.

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 MAX 2020 -  A new year and a continuation of image manipulation sprinkled with chance surprises. "Running Out of Time" digital proof- 2020 Where will these fragments of images lead? watching the newsfeeds, reading pages. Images of my dreams slip in and out of view. "Tears" digital proof, 2020 12/27/2019 Wanting to create images that mimics the recollection of images seen over a span of time. Or the reflection of movement, or a shadows glance. In 2015 I was introduced to MAX  which is a program which enables creatives to build synthesizers using visual code. My dilemma is that I was\am not a computer programmer. With the encouragement of others and the willingness to experiment, I built a virtual device that allows  me to create images  by layering multiple transparent images selected through use of a random number selector. The subsequent images were  displayed on a monitor or large screen. Images transiti...

Chasing images reflections-memories-influences

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And then the brush was dancing over the paper.  I remembered the fascination of watching my mother practice her Sumi painting.  The ink appearing as a trail from the brush,  the image appearing in the wake. For Brett Weston Max-digital proof Joss Paper for the Planet photograph Urban Composition- Chicago Photograph 19