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Jonathan Williams
Portrait Photographs
Exhibition
May - September, 2005
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ca 1986
Sandra Fisher, artist
Howgill Fells, above Sedbergh, Cumbria, England. |
Booker Ervin, tenor saxophonist (left) with Kenneth Patchen, poet and artist (right). Hudson Street, Lower Manhattan, NYC. |
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ca 1967
Lorine Niedecker, poet
Milwaukee, WI. |
ca 1955
Robert Duncan, poet
San Francisco, CA. |
"There is no edition. I don't know who makes editions
of photographs? Commercial photographers, maybe? I
just walked downstairs to the gallery where I have
about a hundred photographs on the walls. Many
photographers do not like signing on the photographic
surface. (From now on I will sign on the back in
pencil.) Not a photograph in my collection (Frederick
Sommer, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind,
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Clarence John Laughlin, Alvin
Langdon Coburn, Paul Strand, Art Sinsabaugh, etc.)
indicates an edition. If a million people want a color
print of Lorine Niedecker, they should be allowed to
have it at modest cost. In US 1999 we will be lucky to
find 50 takers. Lorine Niedeckerwho is she? Is she
that bimbo on FOX tv every Thursday night?"
- Jonathan Williams, from introduction to his photo
archive on the Jargon Society website
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