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 Trying Out An Artist's Statement    Monday, February 14, 2005   

Vigorously avoiding pretentious sentences beginning with subordinate clauses, all the while eschewing obfuscation, J.E. Simmons presents his Artist's Statement thusly: The world's a bomb. Here are some interesting little bits of it.  Look, don't read - the prints, not words, are the presentation.

For those who still insist on technical data, the photographs were made using traditional methods - film processed in a pyrocatechol developer, and Azo paper developed in either Ansco 130 or amidol. All prints are processed individually by hand. Cameras used are a 1941 Miniature Speed Graphic, various 4x5 cameras, and an 8x10 inch Orbit view camera frequently fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear lens c.1915.





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