self-portrait

Self Portrait (you can see 30' cable air-release in foreground)
Northampton, Massachusetts
October 1998

nothing-matters.com

peter alan monroe

art • photography • music • writing

Through study, experimentation as well as trial and error (and hours in the darkroom every day for a few decades) it might be fair to say at the very least I am able to pull out the reachable tonal ranges with the proper combination of Kodak film, Kodak negative developer, tank-agitation intervals with the developing tank, etc.  Kodak (with remarkably few exceptions has the best darkroom chemistry, film  and products including their printing paper etc. to get the fullest tonal separation and final print results.  Seeing it on an RGB is okay, but not the ultimate and best visual result.  The final print is the thing (that phrase a variation of the Broadway theater “the play’s the thing”).

Anyway... as of this writing we are keeping three analog things:

1) Continue shooting film in the camera.  (actually, as  of this edit in the home page that is over Kodak has stopped making film).

2) Printing out requested/ordered stories to mail from the Post Office.

3) Typing on a regular typewriter relevant-text that goes on the wall and to describe each image in the (infrequent) art installations and… typing out stories for those who want it typed.

One story ("All The Famous People I Have Met") is posted (under "paper") while working on publishing the others in a collection (book form) that anyone (who liked "Famous People") can order in printed-out (and signed by the author) form (keeping with the analog or hand-typed (by me).

A chronology of my one well-received and publicized art project, which was a long time ago (“Lens”) and to come: other (less well-received) art projects in "lens."

Being a semi-professional musician (semi-professional meaning the most money ever made for a gig was $30) and, at this point downgraded from former professional to now semi-professional artist and it is believed a website deserves to be made to display some of these things. That is an impersonal assessment. I hope you (whoever you may be) like it. I thus far your correspondent has one fan...

March 2010/March 2023

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**Cockpit photo by Danielle Weader