Two Men in Rome (in Love)

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy and the Roman Steps (1952)
A set of five gelatin silver photographs

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy and the Roman Steps (1952)
A set of five gelatin silver photographs

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy and the Roman Steps (1952)
A set of five gelatin silver photographs

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy and the Roman Steps (1952)
A set of five gelatin silver photographs

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy and the Roman Steps (1952)
A set of five gelatin silver photographs

Robert Rauschenberg [1925-2008] met Cy Twombly (1928–2011) in 1951, when both artists were enrolled at the Art Students League of New York. They went on to study at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, where they began a rich (and briefly romantic) lifelong relationship. Anchoring their bond was an eight-month journey to Europe and North Africa—a trip that catalyzed some of their earliest experiments in photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture and served as Twombly’s introduction to Italy, a country he would claim as his home from 1957 until his death in 2011.

... Twombly and Rauschenberg had become intimately involved just before leaving New York. The unmistakably erotic charge of the progression—centered, after all, on Twombly’s groin—offers us a window on photographer and subject coming to terms with their new relationship against the backdrop of Rome.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Overview

Containing Multitudes

Larry Wolf, Still Point (Eric) (2024)

You look at me across the two-top, across a quarter century, unguarded moments in the bubble of our relationship, your presence an anchor in the swirl of activity. We hold each other in our gaze, two men, our lives entwined.

Something fresh emerges in the layering of memories—mundane moments, shared meals, waiting for trains or traveling on planes, a pause of connection.

This  image contains multitudes: 37,260,000 pixels from 79 portraits. Light and shadow from times once present, now recalled, photons through a lens, electrons crafted with software, eyes on a screen, hands on a keyboard, ink on paper. 

[in Devotion: A Queer Photography Exhibition, curated by Taylor Roberts and Grace Coudal, Latitude Chicago, June 22 - July 13, 2024

https://www.latitudechicago.org/] 

Six Realms Quick Sketches

Larry Wolf, God Realm (2024)

Larry Wolf, Warring Gods Realm (2024)

Larry Wolf, Human Realm (2024)

Larry Wolf, Animal Realm (2024)

Larry Wolf, Hungry Ghost Realm (2024)

Larry Wolf, Hell Realm (2024)

Clark Street - Again - Fresh

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, A Desire Line (2024)

I walk with a camera

What do I make of the paths I follow in the hardscape of the city,
from my home, up the street, down the street, across town?

Selecting these photos - What connects them?

A desire line.

Igshaan Adams - Desire Lines at the Art Institute of Chicago

Desire Lines - The Gaps (June 19, 2022)

Desire Lines (May 17, 2022)

Design Desire Line

Larry Wolf, Design Desire Line (2024)

Dionysian? Apollonian?

Almost Happy

Larry Wolf, Spring (2024)

Hampir

Hampir, the Indonesian for almost, only a letter away from vampir -- the bloodsucking demon.

What does it mean to be happy? Also, what does it mean to be almost happy?

To almost get in, to be almost accepted, to be almost there, but, at the same time, to be not there/accepted/in.

So, in a world where we celebrate disneyfied heterosexualities, for queer folks, what is happiness?

Often, it becomes the bloodsucking demon, the vampir, the hampir.

Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Translated by Tiffany Tsao

The Feminist Press

Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908)

Henry Hamilton Bennett in Aperture #94 (1984)

Henry Hamilton Bennett in Aperture #94 (1984)

Henry Hamilton Bennett in Aperture #94 (1984)

Henry Hamilton Bennett in Aperture #94 (1984)

David A. Hanson, Song From A Century Before, Aperture #94, Spring 1984

Wisconsin Historical Society - H. H. Bennett Photographer

Wisconsin Historical Society - H. H. Bennett Archive

Anaglyphs

Anaglyph by Michael Verdi (2024)

Anaglyph by Michael Verdi (2024)

Anaglyph by Michael Verdi (2024)

Anaglyph by Michael Verdi (2024)

Viewing mpo ‪1,824 x 1,368‬

Larry Wolf, Ravenswood as jpg (2024)

Larry Wolf, Ravenswood as anaglyph (2024)

Larry Wolf, Ravenswood as lenticular (2024)

Larry Wolf, Ravenswood as side-by-side (2024)

Help from a Friend

Hey Larry,

Did I not send you the link to the StereoPhoto Maker software? I’m sorry. You can get it here https://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/mac/index.html but it’s kind of pain to install. You might just use Photoshop. I made a video for you about all of it - https://wtf.verdi.space/video/mpo-files.mp4

- Michael

Playing with .mpo

link to mpo files from 2024-04-16

David Photostrip

David Wojnarowicz, Photostrip (1981?)
In the Shadow of the American Dream 
The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz 1971 - 1991 (2000)

"So while waiting for the coffee to make its way to the counter, I stepped over to the phone and rang up Jesse. Zoe answered ... I'm making nude photographs of Jesse. Are you coming over? I'll make photographs of you, too ...

"I laughed and said I wasn't sure, I was just sitting down to coffee, and she said Well I'm hideously depressed and so is Jesse and we're drowning in each other's sorrows, but we're doing art, I'm taking pictures, why don't you have your coffee and then come over? ...

"Look, I said hugging her. I don't understand why you people feel depressed. I've been walking around all day feeling extremely happy. I mean there's so much great stuff in living, there's so much to see and do and feel great about (I was beginning to disbelieve myself, explaining it, verbalizing it wasn't the same as feeling it, it was more personal). "

[pages 187-191]

Dawn on Clark - Monday

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Dawn on Clark Street - Additional Walks in Shades of Grey

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - Chase Park (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - Full Kit Gear/Meeting House (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - Full Kit Gear/Graham Crackers Comics (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - SoFo Tap/Banana Video (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery (2024)

Larry Wolf, Dawn on Clark Street - St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery (2024)