May 2023
Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Antonios Schneider
From the series A light of its own
2023
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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 A light of its own (2023). To see the whole extended conversation please visit my website.
The starting point for this series was a black and white image from the Second World War 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, light 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
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VIEW THE WHOLE SEQUENCE ON MY WEBSITE (preferably on a desktop computer)
- 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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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″ print costs $1,000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see the Store web page.
Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Tobacco
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
City (destruction)
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Destroyer
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Emanation
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Flick
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Goggles
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gun
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Helmet
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Katyusha
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Men
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Prisoner
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Aus der Traum
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Trees
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Water
From the series A light of its own
2023
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Art Blart 