8/15/25

18x18" Portraits, Faces, Figures, Animals, Birds & Insects

 18x18" Inkjet Print Project
Portraits, Faces, Figures,
Animals, Birds, Insects

I have photographed people off-and-on since I was ten years old.
I was growing up during the "Street Photography 1960's & 70's
and I have included photographs of people in many of my
conceptual projects over the years.  

Visit my blog link which collects the full range of projects
in which I include photographs of people and check out
the Introductory text.


The Photographs
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Portraits

Image #78 (Portrait) 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Gloria with a serious concussion, August 1969, shortly after she suffered a car accident

My portraits are seldom literal records of appearance. They
instead are charged often with emotion or
perhaps a living Presence.

Image #4 (Face) 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
(Face, Out of Focus, Hands on both sides of face)

Image #126 (Face) 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Face of light (Larry McPherson, died of Parkinson's disease, 2025)

18x18" inkjet print, Image # 18-1 Portrait:
Shadowed Man with light in his glasses

18x18" inkjet print: Image #18-2 Face, intensely illuminated, with Hand over squinting eyes 

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18x18" inkjet print:  Image #18-3    "Face - Mask "   


21x21"  Image Part 2: #58  Faint Portrait Photograph,  
(the Presence of a Person)

21x21" Image Part 2: #59   (Face)  (Out of Focus Face, Eyes Closed)


21x21"  Image  #60  (Portrait)  (Vatican/Elephant Head)

21x21" Square Image Part 2: #61 (Face)   Dark Divided Head   (O.F.)    (Rome Colosseum)

Many of us humans have such broken, fragmented, confused
unknowable personas or egos.


21x21" Image #62  (Portrait) Faint Photograph, 
 ("Frightened" eyes--one hand to side of the face)
 (Visit my blog project Portraits & Faces)

21x21" Image  #66    
(Face) (Animal Face, O.F.) 

Image #3 (Portrait) 18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
(Eclipsed, Circled Abstract Line Drawing Portrait)

21x21"  #65   (lined Portrait)   (Neg/Pos Out-of-Focus Skull Face, Circled & with lines)
(See my project Line Drawing Portraits Homage to Giocometti  




Animals, Birds, Insects


18x18" Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) #188 (Animal)
Tuttle & bubbles in a backyard home-made pond (also a "Quirky" photo)

As I written elsewhere, many images can fit into more than one
thematic category, suggesting the a layering of meaning or
a potential for many kinds of meaning depending on
the viewer's capacity, etc.

Misc. 18x18 Square Prints (on 20x24"base) #130 (Animal)
Mr. Blue behind window curtains


18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #149 (Animal) Elephant leaving the darkness of the tent


18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #30 (Birds)
Basement Window View of Birds in flight over the weeping apple tree

I have a special attraction to birds--photographically--though I have
considered it impossible to photograph living birds.


18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #213 (Animal)
A Sea Lion, swimming on its back in a zoo pool

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #36 (Animal)
Mr. Blue looking out of our steamed basement window with snail drawings

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #7 (Bird & Rain drops on window, S. Meadow)

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #180 Birds/Window
Bird and snowflake on our misted snail-lined picture window 

Image #5 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) (Animal/Faint)
(Faint Photograph, Bull in foggy landscape)

Image #75 (Animals/Faint) 18x18" Inkjet print (on 20x24"base)
Two Geckos (Faint Photograph)

Image #76 (Insect/Faint) 18x18 Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base)
Grasshopper (Faint Photograph) (Quirky photograph)

18x18" Image #75   (Insect)  (Symmetrical Photograph)  (also 21x21")
Illuminated Garden Path (Butterfly)

Many of the symmetrical photographs manifest spontaneously
wings and eyes. 

21x21" Square Image #9  (Bird/Angel/Symmetrical Photograph)
 Bird of Tears (Blue Angel of Tears project)



Human Figures

18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #85 (Human Figure)
(Bather, looking down, with the Lake's horizon line on his shoulders)

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #150
(Human Figure)
Inversed shadow-man walking over crossed lines

18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #125 (Human Figure)
A Boy (named River) walking in a Blue River Dream

18x18" Image and Matte (on 20x24"base) #174 (Human Figure)
Young Man Walking--in the distance--in a Snow Storm

18x18" Image & matte (on 20x24"base) #151
(Human Figure)
(Boy with Bat & Ball in a momentary flash of light)

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #67 (Human Figure)
Death Valley

18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #61 (Human Figure)
Bus Window View of shepherds gathered on a hill in Turkey

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #72 (Human Figure)
Reflection of Gloria in our rain covered picture window, reading at night under our floor lamp

18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #122 (Human Figures)
Young Boy. glaring man with a book, two florescent tubes (early 1994-2000 Studies project)

18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #171 (Human Figure)
Vatican Sculpture, public display (young boy)

18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #173 (Human Figure/Faint)
Four men in suites (out of focus)

21x21"  Image
 #57  (Human Figure/Faint)    (Fisherman in the Fog on the Milwaukee Shores)
(Visit my project Faint Photographs)

18x18" Image (on 20x24" base) #87 (Human Figure)
Young Boy and the Universe (early 1994-2000 Studies project)

21x21" Image 
#64  (Human Figure)    (Falling Man & Hanging Ladder in the starry sky)
See my project "Silent Dialogues"


See my collection of Studies Projects, and in particular
Studies I, 1994-2000 and Studies II which is a Homage project to the
great jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk.


I have never felt more disappointed in human beings.  2025 has been
the most difficult year of my life thanks to politics in America,
Climate Change, and all kinds of physical problems that
have sprung up and worsening since  January, 2023. 
 I am writing this in mid-August;
in three weeks I will turn 80 years old.
I am so grateful for Gurumayi &
Siddha Yoga, my wife Gloria, our
children and grandchildren and 
photography.

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This project page was published on August 12, 2025
but it is presently unfinished; also, more pictures
may be added or removed later.

Here is the list of titles for the newly revised, thematically restructured 18x18" Inkjet Print Project. When a title has been published as a blog page, the hyperlinked title will appear as a deep blue typeface. As the titles indicate, more than one thematic grouping may be published under a single blog page title.


The Complete List of Projects 
included in the
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Time & Timelessness  February 1, 2025  All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025

The Memory of Light  March 4, 2025  All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025

Black and White Photographs  April 3, 2025  All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025

Winter's End, Winter's Stones & Plants  April 17, 2025  All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025

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Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper 

Blue Angels  (A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (the blog version was revised April 2023)   Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")

Silent Dialogues  18x18" images on 20x24" paper Inkjet prints made in 2023

Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book
  
18x21" images on 20"x 24" paper Inkjet prints made in February, 2024 



An Additional Related Blog Project Link
     


Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape.  It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's.  You will also find on the Welcome Page my several Introductory statements, my resume, contact information . . . and much more.