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Remembering Artists From Another Time: Edward Dugmore

I have photographed many mid-20th-century artists; famous, interesting and artful. Those voices from my past haunt me like echoes from an asylum. Over time they have become a menagerie of mirages, one thousand fleeting floaters in the eyes. Maybe I am lost in a forgotten time a forgotten place in time but not in mind. My archives have revealed a life behind the camera. Pages alphabetized all in rows; glowing celluloid images reimagined in dreams. They fulfill and linger in my minds like a caress-able bevy of pillowy cygnets floating atop an entire planets estuaries.

My portrait photography and architectural photography are in my cameras view like fraternal twins: through both I see my friends my history and stories told and to be told.

Hand in hand they live as one: I mindfully approach both subjects with the same language, mentality and necessity to bend into the moment. Capturing a lifetime and everything imaginably alive before. Together they are my forever.

I have photographed many architectural feats. They have become  silent........

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