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Over a year ago?
Posted Jul 16, 2000
Well, I certainly know how to keep up with my journal entries. I shall try to add entries more than once per year from now on, but no promises. So what's been happening?
Obviously, I've abandoned the Milton project, mainly due to lack of interest by everyone involved (especially myself). That's not to say I haven't kept busy. In the past year I've done two photography shows and opened my own business, a retail comic book store. What do comic books have to do with photography, you might ask? Nothing, except that I'm interested in both of them and neither one makes me very much money.
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Milton and nudity
Posted Jun 23, 1999
Some time ago I was offered the chance to
illustrate a book for a small publishing company
that specializes in limited leatherbound editions
of books whose copyrights have fallen into the
public domain. My brother has been working for
this company for the past year, doing drawings
to accompany a series of volumes of Arthur Conan
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories. My
brother told me that this publisher might be
interested in my work as well, but since my work
consists primarily of artsy photographs of nude
women, I was at a loss as to what sort of
"classic literature" might be appropriate.
Then it hit me: John Milton. Paradise Lost.
Takes place in the Garden of Eden, right? Lots
of opportunities for nudity there. So I've just
spent the entire day pouring through Milton's
incredibly dense verse, attempting to find imagery
that I might be able to reproduce in a photo-
illustrative format.
Surprisingly, I've found quite a few, only some
of which will require me to delve into the murky
world of male nude models, an area I have almost
no experience with. I've even managed to line up
a photo shoot tonight with two models, so I can
get started while the ideas are still fresh. We'll
see how it goes.
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