The Karen Kuehn Portrait

[Kirk Gittings]

Some months back I was looking to borrow an 8x10 bellows for a portrait that was being done of me for a book on artists. The photographer, Karen Kuehn, had appeared at one of my openings last year and offered to shoot me. Karen is an extraordinary talent and I was very flattered. But with Karen you never know where she is going to go...................

Here is one of the images done of me by the notorious Karen Kuehn. Wanting to see where her vision took her, I gave her complete creative license.


If you are not familiar with Karen:
http://www.karenkuehn.com/

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[Kirk Gittings]

Special thanks to Ralph Barker and Juergen Sattler for lending me bellows for the shoot.

[Karl Gruenewald]

I love it! The similarity between large format cameras and accordions never hit me until I saw that photo!

[Ron Marshall]

All that is missing is a little monkey on a leash.

[Ralph Barker]

Interesting, to say the least.

[Oren Grad]

Shows a strong sense of direction.

[Jim Galli]

Hope that's not your stock portfolio just to your right. Great shot!

[Frank Petronio]

ur2kewl !

[Kirk Gittings]

Ron,
The idea of a monkey was explored. I had no friends who could loan one or pass for one.

Oren,
The arrow has real meaning. See the second paragraph. the original site is now a ruin and the arrows are gone.

http://www.gittingsphoto.com/content.html?page=1

[Kirk Gittings]

Ron,
Let me correct that. I had friends who could pass for a monkey reasonably well, but none who were willing to.