MarcMagazines
What if many of my countless photographs spanning over four and a half decades were used on magazine covers to preview many of the articles I have actually written or might write, for magazines that I also owned?
MarcMagazines are collections of experimental magazine covers illustrating essays and poems based on dozens to hundreds existing web journal writings as well as articles I might write in the future.
My approach to this concept involves letting the cover images do as much or more, in partnership with article titles and descriptions, to characterize the content in the magazines.
The cover designs are all basic: a nameplate (at the top of the cover), the cover photograph and the title of the main article. The image functions as the cover design and eliminates all else, including the titles of additional articles inside the magazine, which simplifies and focuses the cover for one purpose, previewing the lead article, while avoiding overdesign.
All of my writings are accompanied by photographs which have usually prompted the articles in the first place. I belief that the two art forms, when mated, uniquely enhance each other and result in a new, even stronger presentation.
Some of the magazine covers are previews of controversial essays and poems that utilize nude photographs which render them very much NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Such content is not displayed on this page.
The titles of the magazines I have created are derived from journals with similar or identical titles:
Perspectives: essays and historical photojournalism
Roamings: black and white photographs and retrospectives
Urban Journal: essays, poems and images with emphasis on urban life
ObserSpections: essays and autobiographical essays
PRRS and Black Journal: politics, religion, race and sexuality
Portraits: studio and location portraits and artistic nude portraits
Moments: scenes from historical black and white photojurnalism
RandomMarc: color photojournalism and urban life
MarcArt: conceptual and digitally altered images
Introspections: personal images and self-portraits
Journeys: architecture/cityscapes/nature
This page, which will grow in the future, offers a few examples of (less controversial) magazine covers and articles. However, the largest number of covers, including those with provocative, uncensored images, appear with a considerable number of other NSFW images in a separate, non-public journal entitled Concepts and Creations.
