Lawrence, Haunter of RuinsĪt his death on January 2, 1985, Clarence Laughlin remained, like the title of one of his best-known photographs, an enigma. Labeling him as such is no more or less accurate or useful than calling him a surrealist, a romantic, a modernist, or a fantasist, though each of these terms describes an aspect of Laughlin's character and his achievements as a visual artist. This omnium-gatherum of photographs, quotations, and essays serves not as an explanation of the enigma but a suggestion of its boundaries.Ĭlarence John Laughlin was born near the city of Lake Charles, To explain the mystery of Laughlin's work would be not only presumptuous effrontery but quite possibly a fool's errand, an enterprise doomed to failure. Spent in Washington, D.C., during World War II, he remained a resident The exception of a brief sojourn to New York in the early 1940s and time While he was still a young boy his family moved to New Orleans, and with Louisiana, in the southwestern corner of the state on August 10, 1905. World of children's literature and fantasy through the public library in New Of the city, for virtually his entire life. On subjects as varied as science fiction, Victorian erotica, contemporary His personal library at his death numbered some thirty, thousand volumes Orleans, and the young Laughlin was fascinated with books from then on. The omnivorous (though never indiscriminate) range of Laughlin's taste in books, magazines, and literature provided a self-constructed Sculpture, and illustrated fairy tales, and included runs of avant-garde periodicals. Underpinning for his work in photography. It’s a slightly different kind of stewardship that I do, but both are grounded in respect, study, love and connoisseurship. And both are vital to the well being of the human beast. Great Depression, when he was approaching the age of thirty, he taught Like so many important aspects of his life, Laughlin's career as a photographer was essentially of his own making. Identifying a bird hidden in a tree by its call and recognizing an artist’s style in a work of art are the same kind of pleasure to me. Army Corps of Engineers, Vogue and the Office In the first ten years of his career, Laughlin Himself the fundamentals of the medium using simple cameras and home. Of Strategic Services, but the two decades following World War II wereĭuring this period, Laughlin earned a modest living as a freelance architectural photographer, receiving commissions from architects in the South and Midwest to photograph residences, power plants, hospitals, and office buildings that were the tangible manifestations and solid legacy of the postwar building boom. He supplemented this income by lecturing about his creative photographic work and theories at colleges and universities throughout the United States he was also paid for the circulation of a series of traveling exhibitions based on thematic groupings of his work. Bird of a death dream clarence laughlin series# Laughlin frequently took trips combining photographic commissions, lecture dates, and photography reflecting his personal interests. Bird of a death dream clarence laughlin series#.
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