I took several hundred self-portraits with the Polaroid One-Step SX-70 camera in 1978. The artists whose work at the time captivated me were Lucas Samaras, Egon Schiele, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. To document my life as a 21-year-old queer art punk, I used the Polaroid, multiple journals and performance. I posed, like any good punk, to put you off and to attract you just the same; its all the same.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
I am introduced to the book after reading Herve Guibert's Ghost Image.
I entered the San Francisco Art Institute without a camera, my 35mm art student camera having been stolen out of my car as I moved into my first apartment. Left with a Polaroid and a Kodak Instamatic, I made do.
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