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David Byrne

Blue Blood  1996

David Byrne has been involved in photography and design since his college days, but has only recently begun to exhibit his work and include his photos in books and magazines. Like his film and musical projects, his photography is often described as elevating the mundane or the banal to the level of art. In some ways he creates icons out of everyday materials and finds the sacred in the profane. Some of the photos might be considered “documentary”, though they are not really about a specific place or time. Rather, they are about the choice of the things, or lack of things, that is photographed. In particular, the lack of people stands out in his work. On this aspect of photography the writer/critic Wright Morris describes the sensation this condition creates: “Only in their absence will the observer intuit, in full measure, their presence in the object.” In a sense, Byrne’s photographs are about interiors, both physical and emotional, as much as exteriors. As a body of work, his photography deals with what lies behind the eyes as much as what is in front of them.

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David Byrne - Playing The building

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Everything's Alright - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 Version)

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Talking Heads - “Wild, Wild Life”

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Fatboy Slim - THE BPA TOE JAM (southpark edition)

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) dir. David Lynch

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