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I began studying Photography around 1965 at the
Institute of Design in Chicago. My studies with Aaron Siskind, Joe Jachna,
Arthur Siegal and Wynn Bullock gave me first hand experience with truly
creative photographers.
At the Art Institute of Chicago around 1969, I began photographing the
nude with Wendy, my wife, and I began making multiple image prints. Then
for over thirty years I explored various techniques and processes while
photographing the nude as a central theme.
I began digital image making with the Apple IIe in 1984 where I explored
juxtapositions, ie. portraits on top of nudes and pigment against raster
scan lines.
In 1998 I began to work with pinhole photography.
I use an oatmeal box pinhole camera to make 8x10 inch B&W negatives.
With its extreme wide angle and distortion, the camera is a delight because
it gives me results that are constantly a surprise. I develop the B&W
negatives, scan them into Photoshop, and then colorize the image by pulling
curves in each of the channels. It is a thrill to make an image rooted
in 16th Century pinhole optics juxtaposed with 21st Century digital print
manipulations. These newest photographs of mine are a blend of these opposites.
In my diverse series, from multiple exposures, to juxtapositions of time,
from plastic camera, Nimslo camera, scanner as camera to pinhole camera,
I have always tried to find a mix of image and process with the nude as
a theme.
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