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This is interesting: this print was just delivered as a loan to The Museum of Sex in NYC for their exhibition on rubbers, on view Dec 1st through April, I believe.

photo: Used Condom 2008 (from NYC Remnants), 40×50″ archival pigment print, edition of 3, by Graeme Mitchell.

photo: Cigarette Box #6, 2009. ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: Cigarette Box #5, 2009. ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: Inside of a Book Found, ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Beer Can #2, ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Cigarette Box #4. ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Cigarette Box #3. ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Cigarette Butt, Gum, Paper, and Hair. ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Used Condom, ©Graeme Mitchell, 2008.

photo: Cigar Stub #1, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

(I smiled while looking through Irving Penn‘s still life book yesterday.  I’d mentioned while posting the first of this series (here) that I’m standing in his mighty shadow and mentioned his cigarette butts.  It turns out he also did a picture titled “Marlboro Pack,” which – you guessed it – is a picture of a Marlboro box he’d found on the street.  And gawdalmighty it’s a great picture.  And I was worried about his cigarette butts!  Alas!  Either everything has indeed been done and the exhausted school stands correct, or my subconscious betrayed me!

“History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake” – James Joyce.

Worth a laugh at least.)

photo: Note #1, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Cigarette Box #2, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Beer Can #1, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Plastic Bottle #2, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Plastic Bottle #1, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.