Great Unknowns – An Exquisite Collection Of Black and White Photography
Edited by Adam Slater
First edition, 2005 We-Zer Publishing
ISBN 0-9646270-2-7
I’ve had my eye on this one book for a long time. It full of budding artists with fresh perspectives. 15 years later, few survived as artists. But a worthy investment at $10.
Parish Kohanim featured a photo called Susie On Rocks which I loved. 15 years later… Homanim's work is not worth mentioning.
Bill Lemke inspired me to take a few nature photos. I failed and failed and failed. He’s gone on to do quite well.
Barbara Peacock’s sacrilegious Forgive My Father was a real interesting and provocative piece. She’s moved on to children's photography. It is a shame too. I would buy the original, now it only exists in my book and perhaps some gallery. I can’t find it on the internet.
I found Jim McGuire’s work exploitive. Oddly enough, I still find his work exploitive.
I also picked up Nexus, Photographs 1975 – 1980
by Murry Smith.
I’ve seen this book for sale in various shops, but always for about $75. I picked it up for $10 today.
Digressions: a blog has a review of the book and even a well-made YouTube video. It’s worth a few minutes of your time if you like photography and art.
Nexus is subtitled: “Photographs 1975-1980, Physics in the Twentieth Century…Observations/Conceptions.” The book has text interspersed among pictures in the form of prose, poetry, and quotations. The text addresses broad issues that should be about physics, but take on a new-age pseudo-hippie metaphysics vibe.
I fought for the book. A fellow art book shopper had her eye on it. I reached up for it as she was reading the titles. She game me the dirtiest look.