"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose Garden." T.S Eliot, Burnt Norton
Top diptych is Gilbert and George, the other 2 are untitled
Dear Shaded Viewers,
Michael James O'Brien is an American photographer and poet. His ‘Diptychs’ exhibition is inspired by an exhibition of Flemish Primitive Diptychs at the Fine Arts Museum in Antwerp in 2007. The works cover a period of 20 years composed from analog and digital photographs. Passing time, memory – real or imagined & loss are the central themes. Michael James obtained his Master in Fine Arts from Yale University where he studied in the early 70's with Walker Evans. His work has been commissioned by publications such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Financial Times and the Guardian to name just a few.
In 1993 he began a collaboration with Matthew Barney, producing all of Barneys still photographs and creating a photographic parallel to his Drawing Restraint 7, Cremaster 1, 2, 4, 5. These works have been exhibited at the Mus
