Publisher's Description
William B. Keckler, writer and visual artist writes:
“Bill Dane’s work is not easily reducible. No convenient ism appears to explain his artistic trajectory. Dane’s photographs of found images (ephemera, long-gone advertisements, store window displays) root down into the cultural subtext and narratives others have insidiously hidden in plain sight, those images with designs on us. In this sense, and this sense only, Dane is a street photographer.
But content is deeper than form, and his photographs have the subconscious life that well-made paintings do. Part autobiography, part documentary, this book includes a running voice-over by the artist, delivered in a jazzy parataxis that takes us back to the rollicking candor of the Beat poets. It offers us testimony and creed. This fleshes out the work beautifully.
This book offers great insight into the maturation of America throughout a very difficult time period. Miles Davis, who appears in here, blew his shivers through the universe. Bill Dane does too.”
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