KCAC Annual Auction

It’s that time of year for the Kansas City Artists Coalition Annual Auction.

I’ll be donating two photos from my Northtown in 3D series.  And I gotta mention for you savvy collectors: these are not just ‘limited edition’ photos, but are one-time-only prints.  I’ve reworked and expanded the series, making them all a little bit larger than the first pass, to better align with the printer I’m using currently.  So these are essentially ‘artist’s proofs’...

“...images of men flanked by women as a result of deliberate intent, natural instinct, or pure coincidence.”

The title of this post is pilfered from a post made by PhMuseum in the newsletter they sent out this morning.  The photo is one that I took a couple nights ago at a KU basketball game.  

I saw the post for Man, by Erik Kessels and Karel De Mulder and was prepared to be outraged by yet another opaque and overwrought art world self-indulgence, but then I had a look at the photos.  Happily, I could shake off my prejudiced initial reaction and discover with an open mind this wonderful book by photographers who have astutely recognized and presented an obscure human phenomena.  

My selfie-with-women isn’t a perfect example of such a ‘flanking’ but it’s awfully close.

Good way to start a year, huh?