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Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XXVIII

Architect: Oscar Niemeyer: Los Angeles 1963.

I have loved three paintings in my life: I have admired many more: The three paintings I have loved framed my photographic ideas subliminally- – truthful fictions followed: Arnold Böcklin’s first Isle of the Dead  introduced my eyes (along with the two other paintings/artists) to what I needed my photography to appear like: The three paintings were like realizing for the first time that life starts as an embryo: The three paintings became my DNA before I became aware of what I wanted not merely from photography- – but from the life of a photographer: The life of a photographer was to be how and where I made photographs: Where and why I traveled: The collective immersion of place and time: The pragmatism and adventurism that I wanted to have seen in celluloid: The invention of character in what the camera saw.

Every day became a dream sequence almost like a seance: I........

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