Re: Jan Faul

[John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>>
>>
>