JOEY LEHMAN MORRIS

Waning Gibbous

Waning Gibbous consists of an image of the waning crescent moon with Venus printed on unfixed gelatin-silver paper. The photographic negative was contact printed onto black and white paper and exposed to the brilliance of full moonlight and a nearby campfire. The resulting print was left unprocessed and unfixed, inducing the image to vanish during the subsequent month or so under continued exposure to ambient, ultraviolet light.

Flowers

Equivalent

Equivalent is a diptych of chromogenic prints that toys with ideas of legibility and comprehension. It muddles the tangibly unique thing with reproducibility in its blurring of two and three dimensions, and its left to right, and right to left patterns of reading. The word “equivalent” is a historic reference to canonical modernist photography and the concept of mirroring surface exterior with an interior state or private emotion. But it is also a conflation of possible interpretations and perspectives, ways of gathering information and data, and ways of seeing.

Flags

For six months beginning in the Fall of 2001, through the Spring of 2002, my car was dressed with a flag. These are a few of the images that resulted from this relatively inconspicuous performance. During this period, well over one hundred million American flags were imported into the United States, most of which decorated automobiles across the country, and from which many retired in the streets, sidewalks, and gutters of public spaces.

Blown Smoke