Occupation: Artist Birth: December 2, 1943
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very sup….
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and iso….
I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating sty….
Start with a premise and then somehow invert it..
Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time..
Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the phot….
I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That a….
I get so confused about life photography art..
Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released..
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in coll….
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would co….
Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it.….
When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer ….
My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything..
As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work..