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JAB & ABN

thinking about citizenship

taken on the way to angel island for Mary Walling Blackburn's amazing project Radical Citizenship: The Tutorials, in collaboration with Southern Exposure.

read about it here

JAB

post modern post conceptual post industrial post memory pendant internet 'art'

This could also be the unintentional beginning of a project in the vain of JAB's 'home' obsession.


ABN

HY MNTC

hey ABN, maybe we can get back on track. here's some food for thought.




























hit me.


JAB

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LAX, 2010

JAB

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San Francisco and Los Angeles, 2010

JAB

balde-sorry

JABN recently saw John Baldessari's solo show in SoCal, at LACMA. See here... does "SoCal" even work? I couldn't find JABN's favorite piece/series. So instead, here are some palm trees to emphasize the SoCal-ifornication of JB (not JAB). And to remind JABN blogspot readers/viewers that we don't hate LA, or Baldessari, like we've been trained to.














































ABN

A slow series

By now, all five of you who read this blog must know how much I like pairs. Well, here you go: (Unfortunately, you can see the tape marks from where these have been hanging on my wall for the past couple years.)












































































And the picture that started it all...





















JAB

Quote of the day

Our photography professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Lois Conner, told us to sleep with this quote by John Szarkowski under our pillows...














I took her pretty seriously and have lugged this same piece of paper (note the tape on the top) from New York to San Francisco to Paris and back in the past two and a half years.



JAB

JABN is now solely based on the west coast

Ed Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip




ABN

Up












































We all know up is the least flattering angle, but somehow my dad pulls it off.

2010

JAB

Down













2010

JAB

Sarah Anne Johnson

The Bathers

















Morning Meeting


Sarah Anne Johnson does this thing where she intertwines photographs taken while "tree planting" in Canada with photographs of dioramas she constructs based on memories (of the tree planting days). Get it? Read about it where it's more well articulated.



ABN

on my mind

Excerpts












































2010

JAB

Oh brother

Fletcher (Hull, GA), 2010

JAB

Never take pictures in a cemetary...

But sometimes you can't help it.


















great-grandparents William Swift Brown & Viola Bond Brown


Untitled (Viola Bond and William Swift), 2010

JAB

Rainy day

Untitled (burgers), 2010

JAB

Larry Sultan's night with Paris

"I said I'd do it if she would go to my parents' house and let me photograph her in my childhood home in her underwear like a horny teenager," Sultan said of the photograph he took for Interview magazine.

ABN

Twos

Untitled (Highway 1), 2007




















Untitled (Silverlake), 2009



Happy (belated) birthday ABN.


JAB

Fours

2010

JAB

old experiments

I'd like to do more things like this

























2007


JAB

Another pair

Ocean beach, 2010
























Bullfrog Pond, 2008


JAB

fences, night

ABN, 2009




ABN

The rule of thirds

Both Untitled, 2010


JAB

families, fathers

It has become too trendy for photographers to take pictures of their dysfunctional families. But why not promote the trend here? I'll be more specific though-- pictures of failing father figures. And interestingly, all male photographers... daddy issues?



















Doug Dubois' father, from Family Pictures, a series which includes documentation of his father's recovery from a train accident.




















Richard Billingham's alcoholic father, Ray, from Ray's a Laugh























Mitch Epstein's father, from Family Business, a project documenting the decline of his father's furniture store.























Larry Sultan's father, Irving, from Pictures From Home. Think a little less 'failing' father figure, more retired father figure.




ABN