Eleven years ago on Photoforum's Gallery John Palcewski wrote: Jan Faul, The Brown Door. This, obviously, is a visual metaphor for a woman’s plumbing. There are a trio of orifices, through which a man might pass. Obscene! I’m bitterly disappointed, however, that brown is mentioned in the title but does not appear in the image. A broken promise, in other words. The sort of heartbreak one might expect from the sort of woman represented here. Jan Faul replied: Wow! You're weird enough to become a collector of photography. I hope you can afford all the truly sick stuff out there that you deserve to hang on your walls. But I guess you already know you're twisted, right? 8-) John Palcewski wrote: Ha! You're the guy with the twisted pics. Me, I stick with sexually neutral flower arrangements. Or knockers. On 8/9/12, Mario Pires <retorta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PTC was a great project and it was never about the quality of the photos :) > > > > Mário Pires > > Photographer and curator of Photography now! > http://www.scoop.it/t/photography-now > > retorta@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.retorta.net > http://twitter.com/retorta > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:44 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2012-08-08 20:09, Jan Faul wrote: >> >>> >>> I gave the PTC camera and film to the SI years ago and sadly it was >>> rejected. If y’all really have to see the mediocre shots we all took, >>> I can upload them to my web site next week. >>> >> >> Yeah, I actually would. I never expected the results to have any >> particular artistic value, but the project as it ended was rather a >> let-down of the energy generated while the cameras were going around. >> Seeing the photos in decent scans would go some way towards closure on >> that >> for me. >> -- >> David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ >> Snapshots: >> http://dd-b.net/dd-b/**SnapshotAlbum/data/<http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/> >> Photos: >> http://dd-b.net/photography/**gallery/<http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/> >> Dragaera: http://dragaera.info >> >> >
