I don't have any resolutions. I got ideas on what needs to be done in 2015 / 16. I'm still working on a few carryover projects from 2014.
In late 2013 I had started on a project to honor the 50th anniversary of Ed Ruscha's
Twenty-six Gasoline Stations project which was considered the first modern artists' book.
My homage...
http://twentysixroadkills.tumblr.com/ I'm working on placing the last 2 copies of
Roadkills.
In late 2013 I also started work on the landmark
Encyclopedia of Photographic and Fine Art Ink Jet Printing Media. Even with running 2 to 3 printers it proved to be a very time consuming project taking almost a year to finish the 72 hand printed books.
In Late 2014 I started to ship sets of the
Encyclopedia. The first set went to the Center of Creative Photography. The National Media Museum in the UK, which manages the Royal Photographic Societies collection, had tentatively accepted a set, but the $1000+ Fed-X delivery bill blew up the acquisition.
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http://encyclopediainkjetmedia.tumblr.com/ I am working on placing the remaining sets of the
Encyclopedia.
In early 2014 I came out with another landmark artists' book. This one was on the topic of self-harm. -
Cutters: There is nothing I hate more than myself. Now, there are plenty of books on self-harm. But nothing that goes into the depth and scope that mine does when it comes to documenting cutting. Have a couple of copies that need placement.
I had to put my
Bikers' Mardi Gras project on hold due to all the work with these two preceding projects. The book was completely shot, it was only a matter of putting it together, printing and binding. That is what I'm doing now. I have just finished a rough draft. I hope to have a maquette done by late January 2015.
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http://bikermardigras.tumblr.com/ Future book projects I started in 2014 going into 2015 / 16...
Whoop-Whoop (nsfw)
http://familyicp.tumblr.com/ Circle (name pro tem)
Here is a sample page ...
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http://orderwomenlikepizza.tumblr.com/ Yum! Doing anything worthwhile with photography is very tough nowadays. I am winding things up with my photography. I started to sell off some of my gear that I can do without. I've placed thousand of prints with most of the major public collections around the world. In fact, I probably hold the world record for placing the largest number of original prints with the largest number of public institutions in the shortest time length.
The problem is the institutions will not collect all of a photographers output. They will only collect a sampling of their entire output. (Unless they acquire the whole archive after the artist dies.) So in my case not much to do with more and more photos. I am a museum photographer and not a Flickr photog. If I can't place work with museums or large institutions it kidna put a damper on my interest.
I have enough projects to keep me busy for the next 2 to 3 years. So will see how things go. If you have freezing time in your blood, you must keep pressing the button. So one can only divorce photography so much from one's life. As it is now I have almost 2 years of material I have not looked through. (No it is not from Eric Kims harebrained scheme to marinate them. I just don't have the time. ) The only time I will shoot now is if I have a worthwhile project that can lead to an artists' book or a portfolio / museum placement.
