Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Aus der Traum (From the Dream)’ 2023

May 2023

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Antonios Schneider
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
Too call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.


Raymond Carver. ‘Late Fragment’ from A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989

 

This posting offers a selection of photographs from my new 269 image sequence Aus der Traum (From the Dream) (2023). To see the whole extended conversation please visit my website.

The starting point for this series was a black and white image from towards the end of the Second World War (when the Germans were obviously going to loose) of a German soldier looking at writing that has been scrawled in heavy chalk on the side of an armoured vehicle. ‘Aus der Traum’ translates as ‘From the Dream’.

As the series developed the work, as is its want, took on a life of its own. I use the photographs of war and its effects as part hallucinogenic, technicolour dream and part exploration “… not to follow optically the ‘line of ideas’ in the text or in a picture and see only the representation proper, the surface, but to probe with the eyes the pictorial texture and even to enter the texture.”1

Dr Marcus Bunyan

269 images
© Marcus Bunyan

VIEW THE WHOLE SEQUENCE ON MY WEBSITE (preferably on a desktop computer)

 

1/ Martin Jay. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkley: University of California Press, 1993, p. 512.


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Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ print costs $1,000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see the Store web page.

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Tobacco' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Tobacco
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
City (destruction)
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Destroyer
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Emanation' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Emanation' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Emanation' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Emanation
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Flick
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Goggles
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gun
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Helmet' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Helmet' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Helmet' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Helmet' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Helmet
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Katyusha
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Men
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Prisoner
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Aus der Traum
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Trees
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Water' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Water' 2023

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Water
From the series Aus der Traum (From the Dream)
2023
Digital photograph

 

 

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Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Too Much of the Air’ 2015

April 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2015
Digital photograph
From the series Too Much of the Air 

 

 

Too Much of the Air

And now for something completely different… after 16 months hard work, I have completed a new 52 image sequence.

Below is a selection of images from the sequence. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.

To view the whole sequence please visit my website.

 

“Imagine being in these planes knowing that you only had moments to live, and knowing that you could do nothing about it. What brought you to that point, what decisions did you take as a human being (or were taken for you) that enacted this scenario.

The “greatness” as the event passes is what is being worked with here. It is the inverse aspect of the sublime. Usually the sublime is regarded as beyond time … but not here. Essentially I am sustaining the last moments of a doomed life, outside of time.

We are unusually privileged to experience the sublime in this way. It is usually a lost aspect through the death of the witness.”


Dr Marcus Bunyan

 

Note: these images will be printed large to reinforce the disintegration of the image, technology and human being. Tullio Crali‘s painting Before the Parachute Opens (Prima che si apra il paracadute) (1939) was one of a few starting points, inspirations, for the new sequence.

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ costs $1000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

 

Beginning of the sequence

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

End of the sequence

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Too Much of the Air' 2015

 

 

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Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘The Symbolic Order (cartes de visite)’ 2011

March 2011

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2011
From the series The Symbolic Order (cartes de visite)
Digital photograph

 

 

The body of work The Symbolic Order (cartes de visite) 2011 is now online on my website. There are 23 images in the series of modulated fighter aircraft recognition cards that cycle through the colour wheel. Below is a selection of images from the series.

I hope you like the work!

Marcus

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Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ costs $1000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All photographs: Untitled from the series The Symbolic Order (cartes de visite) 2011 by Marcus Bunyan

See the whole series on my website.

 

 

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Work in progress: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Missing in Action (red kenosis)’ 2010

September 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

 

Missing in Action (red kenosis)

A body of work is slowly taking shape. I have over 150 images at the moment (!!) and after I finish making them all the images will be culled to form the new series Missing in Action (red kenosis) (2010). Images from the new series are below. Please click on the photographs to see a larger version of the image. Enjoy!

Marcus

 

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ costs $1000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

 

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan. 'Missing in Action (red kenosis)' 2010

 

All images from the series Missing in Action (red kenosis) 2010

 

 

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Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Missing in action (dark kenosis)’ 2010

May 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.11' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.11
2010
Digital photograph

 

 

Missing in action (dark kenosis)

A new body of work Missing in Action (dark kenosis) 2010 is now online on my website.

There are eighty-two images in the series which are like a series of variations in music with small shifts in tone and colour. Below are a selection of images from the series. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.

Many thankx to the people who have emailed me saying how much they like the new series of work.

Marcus

 

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ costs $1000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

 

Kenosis

“In Christian theology, Kenosis is the concept of the ‘self-emptying’ of one’s own will and becoming entirely receptive to God and his perfect will.”

 

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.19' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.19
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.35' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.35
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.46' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.46
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.49' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.49
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.67' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.67
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.71' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.71
2010
Digital photograph

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.76' 2010

 

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.76
2010
Digital photograph

 

Detail of images

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.76' 2010 (detail)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.78' 2010 (detail)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.6' 2010 (detail)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) 'Missing in Action (dark kenosis) No.9' 2010 (detail)

 

Detail of images 76, 78, 6 and 9

 

 

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