must be a devil between us or whores in our head
ROGER BALLEN

PHILIP LORCA DICORCIA

series of staged polaroids

NICK WAPLINGTON

TINA BARNEY

"When people say that there is a distance,
a stiffness in my photographs,
that the people look like they do not connect,
my answer is that this is the best that we can do.
This inability to show physical affection is in our heritage"

from The Instant Decorator, 2001-2004

from The Boxes (ARDIS VINKLERS), 2005

LAURIE SIMMONS

LARRY SULTAN
" The event of filming creates a sexualized zone in which the gestures, rituals and scenes of suburban domestic life take on a peculiar weight and density. The furnishings and objects in the house, which have been carefully arranged, become estranged from their intended function."
/excerpt from the Valley, photos taken at porn shoots

MARIANNE MUELLER
The Proper Ornaments, Combine 1995-2005