Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Flak photos
Two more photos of mine were posted on Flak's photo page. The first went up a month ago, but I forgot to blog it. I took it while walking along the Charles river in Cambridge, Mass. last December. It was nice light and one of those old-school signs you don't see very often any more. I'd be interested to see what it looks like at night.
The second was taken surreptitiously at the National Gallery during a retrospective of work by the late Dan Flavin, who was known for installations using commonly available neon lighting tubes and fixtures. It's a little blurry because I obviously couldn't use a flash. You're also not supposed to take pictures of works the gallery doesn't own, so guards were on the lookout for cameras. I figure you can't actually see the installations, just their light, so it's OK.
An interesting Flavin sidenote: His stuff is endangered by a lack of bulbs. While the original theory was to make stuff out of commonly available materials, the fixtures and neon stuff you could buy at any hardware store in the '60s isn't being produced any more. So Flavin collectors pay top dollar for ancient fluorescent stuff against the day their art burns out.
The second was taken surreptitiously at the National Gallery during a retrospective of work by the late Dan Flavin, who was known for installations using commonly available neon lighting tubes and fixtures. It's a little blurry because I obviously couldn't use a flash. You're also not supposed to take pictures of works the gallery doesn't own, so guards were on the lookout for cameras. I figure you can't actually see the installations, just their light, so it's OK.
An interesting Flavin sidenote: His stuff is endangered by a lack of bulbs. While the original theory was to make stuff out of commonly available materials, the fixtures and neon stuff you could buy at any hardware store in the '60s isn't being produced any more. So Flavin collectors pay top dollar for ancient fluorescent stuff against the day their art burns out.
