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.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
scanning pics... assembling for files... digitizing the Polaroids
Though I wear a Union Jack pillow case on my head, I quote the French writer, Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida: "The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent things, but because on each occasion it fills the sight by force, and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so)."
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