"I worked on photography alone... and gave it nearly as much attention as
painting in the early 1970s. In 1973, the NEA grant allowed me to buy my
own camera and set up a darkroom here at home. Most of the work at the time
was concerned with photographing various objects that later became 'models'
for the paintings to come. The best of them have a kind of haunting quality
I think...surrealists leanings... a sense of portraiture in landscape
surroundings...It is worthy of mention because it has had a most important
role in my work as a whole."
Jay DeFeo, Letter to Dorothy Miller, 1977.
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