Wednesday Edition: Bert Teunissen
BG-0004 by Bert Teunissen
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BG-0006-25A by Bert Teunissen
10"x8" ($20) | 14"x11" ($50) | 20"x16" ($200) | 30"x24" ($1000)
Hi collectors! It's Sara, filling in for a sad-not-to-be-here Jen. These editions have been on the books for what seems like ages and we've been eagerly anticipating their release amidst winding three-way, long-distance conversations. Jen and I have both been out of the city for a bit and our respective returns are appropriate to these works from Bert Teunissen.
Bert's long sought and documented the day-lit interiors of his childhood home for his series Domestic Landscapes. As he's been seeking these spaces, he's covered over 50,000 kilometers of road. Two slivers of these infinite stretches are stilled in BG-0006-25A and BG-0004-5, both from his book On the Road. These photos are definitely Bert's own and closely linked to his other work in Domestic Landscapes—of which we've featured two—Saugnac et Muret #1, 27/12/2005 11:27 and LA ALBERCA #6 1/3/2005 12:56. Jen will be back with a third edition (!) from this series and more about the links between the two, tomorrow.
At once silky and rough, warm and isolate, sunlit and spattered, BG-0006-25A and BG-0004-5 (and the title of his book) are also part of a long tradition. Dorothea Lange photographed The Road West. Garry Winogrand shot through his dirty, dusty windshield. Todd Hido, whose work we brought to you a few months back, is also one to give into the road's sirens and whims; he writes: "I drive and drive and I mostly don't find anything that is interesting to me. But then, something calls out." There is possibly no more famous on-the-road photographer than Robert Frank of The Americans who partnered with On the Road writer Jack Kerouac, who wrote the intro to that seminal book.
Why is is that we find these photographers photographing roads again and again and again? The answer, I think, is that they are just like us. And that the road is full of promise—of both lightness and weight—as it brings us simultaneously farther and possibly closer to where we want to be. As Bert writes, "[The road] is both the bridge and the barrier between me and my destiny. It is inviting and defiant at the same time."
During his travels, Frank picks up two mean looking strangers and lets them drive, proving, sharing, affirming, that most of us are more alike than we think—"all [we] want to do is arrow on down the road and get back to the sack." (Jack Kerouac, introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans.) Home, we all want to get home.
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