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July 31, 2005
Coming to New York City
In 1979 I decided that I was going to Paris, as in Paris France. I wanted to live in a place where they loved their artists and I decided this was best Paris. I had met a family of French restauranteurs in Atlanta and was told that they would help me. So off I went back to Atlanta and left Chicago for good.
But instead of Paris, I ended up in New York City on May 12, 1981.
In New York City I started a series of photo promotions; first an oversized matchbook and then a poster. I believe in the self-portrait. It shows a side that cannot be captured by another photographer. A photograph is more a statement about the photographer than it is a representation of the
person in front of the lense.
The camera does not lie; but it doesnt' really tell the truth either. So at its best photography represents
the vision of the photographer.
From 1979 - 1984 I was a bartender at night to keep from being literally a starving artist. It was a great experience and fostered my fascination with characters.
More photos...
I met my husband and partner Thomas Hudson Reeve in 1982. He use to stop in the bar I worked in and for many months I didn't know his name, just what he drank. We started dating in 1983 and by 1984 were living together. We married in 1990 and our partnership in No Evil Productions is like our second vows!
Ah the start of my holiday series! This photo was taken on July 4, 1985. Little did I know
it then but this was the beginning of working on holidays and birthdays and occasions for
greeting cards. Here it started as photo postcards that I mailed out every month.
1984 was the start of my fine art photography career; photography without a client, but with an even bigger purpose. It was the start of my street photography and my experimentation, my fascination with black and white.
The end of the 1980's marked the end of an era. I had jobs as a bartender, as a photo lab technician, as a photographer, but by 1987 I was working for myself and had started putting together what would become my greeting card designer career.
Posted by photocartoonist at July 31, 2005 7:41 PM