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Lost Girls9 |
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| The exploitation of women is an accepted, and in too many
instances, a profitable practice in our society. Occasional
circumstances occur where a woman disappears so suddenly, and
so violently that it propels shockwaves throughout our humanity.
Headlines appear, task forces form and pleas from anguished
relatives are broadcast on the nightly news. We are a fickle
society, and before you can say, “Laci Peterson “
we are on to the next news story. Most disappearances are not
like this. In most cases, women disappear so slowly that they
seem to evaporate. Fissures appear and widen, until they are
large enough to ingest an entire human being. These fissures
are so ordinary that they become mundane. Rather than shock
us they lull the public to sleep.
Dan Gaser
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| Friendly
Fire |
| The idea for Friendly Fire was concieved when
I read about alleged attacks ans rapes on female cadets at
the Air Force Academy. A spokesman for the Academy referred
to the incidents as 'Friendly Fire'. Friendly fire, of course,
is a military term meaning: Accidenly firing guns or dropping
bombs on one's own soldiers. I found this metaphor perverse
and more than a little ironic.
There are institutions and industries that not only condone
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| All of the photographs are product of two negatives 'sandwiched'
togther. Sandwiching is laying one negative on top on another.
Many of the photographs are double, and in some cases, triple
exposures. I have also employed a lighting technique called
'painting with light'. Paint with light is done ina blackened
studio with the camera shutter open and focused. This enables
the artist to use the flashlight as a painter would a brush
to highlight areas crucial to the photograph.
All photographs were taken with a 4X5 view camera. The film,
the chemistry and the paper are all Ilford products.
Each photograph is archival quality meaning that it will last
into the next century without fading.
The photographs were printed on fiber paper, washed, and selenium
toned.
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