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...started with a $1 purchase on a 1971 vacation jaunt. Jerry Dantzic, then 45, a photography professor, was picking over the odds and ends in the Freeport, Me., flea market when his eye caught an old photograph of some 2,000 Protestant ministers. He bought the picture and took it back to his Brooklyn studio. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, he marveled at the tack-sharp faces and the lack of dis tortion at the ends of the long horizontal photograph. "It suddenly occurred to me," says Dantzic, "that I had no camera in my studio that could...
...supposed to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"? Against Spinks it was more like "Bloat like a butterball, swing like a flea...
They contain raw material: alchemical treatises and Renaissance architectural tomes, anatomical figures and worn kachina dolls. New Hebrides masks, pulp novels, turn-of-the-century store cata logues from which Ernst cut the engravings for his haunted collages - the vast flea market of the dreaming mind, here emblematically reduced like a ship in a bottle...
...This reality, Sontag urges, is rendered surrealist by the camera. Surrealist not in the banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything...
...Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...