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What if one reversed illustration? If the picture came first, and it was up to the viewer to give it a story?
A friend points out that this is nothing new. As this article in The Three Pipe Problem makes clear.
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hi Anthony, Langston Hughes wrote a poem after a series of b/w photographs of New York . I did have a copy I gave to Luke . can’t recall the title
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Well, there has always been ekphrastic poetry, inspired by paintings, of course. But I got interested in the notion of making a painting that seemed to refer/illustrate some tale, but actually didn’t. So a reversal of the usual process of illustrating a fiction.
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Langston Hughes, Thé Sweet Flypaper of Life, poems to photographs by Roy Decarava.
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Online catalogue of Julia Farrer currently at Art Space has my text illustrating her pictures. But it’s biomythography rather than fiction
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