Mississippi Blue

Mississippi BlueThe cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photographs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever changing river. twin palms publishers march 2002 9 x 11 inches 65 four color plates 172 pages

Accompanying every portrait is a text written by the operator on some aspect of his or her experience

we cannot but see She as the anti-family album par excellence

chiaroscuro quality

In his cinematic novel Ranch

february 2015

139 duotone plates

which do not compromise the artist's individual vision for the sake of popular acceptance

expressed as a field of symbols

often against great odds

Sontag's short essay on portraiture adds insight to the "Mapplethorpe mystique

and Christopher Isherwood

enough to suggest ideas about human limits