[Three images of bearded man's face]

[Three images of bearded man's face]

Print

Joel Swartz

Maker
American, b. 1944

[Three images of bearded man's face]

ca. 1965
Electrostatic print
Image: 14 × 8 9/16 in. (35.5 × 21.7 cm)
Gift of Thomas Barrow, 2010
2010.0005.0005
Inscriptions Signed in pencil on recto, BR: J. Swartz
Xerographic inscription surrounding images on recto: What you know becomes what limits you, \ but it's all you've got. Of course \ you're curious of unknown things, but \ don't think as a photographer \ anything you choose to picture can \ become a work of substance. \ A Questionable Tradition - freedom to photograph anyone \ Know your limitations well - they will \ expand within the realm of daily \ experience. Beware of the picturable \ picture, so sweet, you must have it. \ What is it... a picture... something \ you need... a show back image? \ A Questionable Tradition - freedom to photograph anything \ There are enough curious things \ happening within the clear understanding \ of the photographer's daily movements \ out of which work can be produced.

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