john waters, artist and film director - the pope of trash - has produced several classics of kitsch icons, here his little movie photographs ...........
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john waters photographs are currently on exhibition at galleria emi fontana, milan february 25 - may 4, 2002 rena bransten gallery, san francisco february 14 - march 16, 2002 http://www.renabranstengallery.com/Waters_Tour.html the show s are a survey of works produced by john waters over the last years. waters is a prolific film director, author, photographer and sometime actor. he is best known for his films, the content of which have sometimes shocked and always entertained an international audience. these works consist of sequential filmstills, taken from hollywood and cult classic movies, including some from his own films. reframed as diptychs, grids and narrow strips, these pictures form puns, one-liners and / or twisted narratives. each grouping is emphasized by its satirical title. in his own words: 'I took my little movie photographs for years without telling anybody. it all started with my obsession to have a still from one of my older films which was never taken on the set. I remembered divine's face in the one moment between rape and miraculous intervention where he lived up to the spirtual side of his name, but I didn't have the picture to prove it. I took hundreds of shots off the TV monitor, blundering my way into photography the same way I blundered into films, until I finally produced the still I wanted.' and he does this to literally hundreds of films. john waters is the 'pope of trash' - william burroughs waters believes 'life is nothing if you're not obsessed. iIf you're an outsider, as soon as you stop being uptight about it and believe that it's an advantage, you'll win. that's what my movies are about. the things you get hassled about exaggerate them, be proud of them, and then people will really respect you. make friends with your neuroses : that's modern maturity.' 'the only way I have to change anyone’s opinion is if I'm making them laugh at something that they've maybe never laughed about before,' waters says. 'I use humor to get people to think the way I do.' john waters has exhibited in new york, london, paris, milan, vienna, los angeles, atlanta, new orleans, cincinnati... / see his kennedy sculptures / see the short biography of john waters --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan details of 'farrah' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan details of 'farrah' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan details of 'farrah' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan 'shut up and blow me!' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan detail of 'the hot seat' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan detail of 'the hot seat' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan 'scene is missing' by john waters courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan
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'sofia loren' by john waters, courtesy galleria emi fontana, milan