Jean Luc Mylayne

Jean Luc MylayneEssays by Lynne Cooke and Terrie Sultan For more than thirty years, Jean Luc Mylayne has been photographing the birds of his native France and the American West. The creation of each image is a laborious process which can take months as Mylayne returns to the same location, day after day. Mylayne asserts that the birds, he particularly focuses on bluebirds, are willing actors in the making of the picture. "When I see a bird, I see at the same time

Attie says

Far from the bright lights and stereotyped fame

John spent twelve summers cowboying across the West before pursuing a professional career

the flesh goes

the series includes images of women of all ages and ethnicities

and under thirty

One Big Self is a document to ward off forgetting

the photographs reveal a free-spirited

von Gloeden's collection of over three thousand glass plate negatives was left to his longtime friend and model

Though the artist no longer uses himself as a model

an aspect of their personality which cannot be easily discerned within their public persona

His framing matches the technique of horror and suspense films in which shadows provide gloomy details of the surroundings