{"product_id":"walter-portz-artist-reception","title":"WALTER PORTZ ARTIST RECEPTION","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eArtist statement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eFor twenty-five years, I was a photographer. Not someone who made photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eA photographer. There is a difference.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eIn my hometown, a city of a quarter million people, that became my identity. I built a career making portraits. I carried cameras into thousands of rooms. I photographed people falling in love, growing older, having children, building families. Intense portraits. Creative commercial concepts. Presidents and immigrants and technology. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eThe camera was always there. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eEventually it became difficult to tell where I ended and it began. In 2014 I made a portrait of a friend. I removed his head. In its place I put a camera.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eAt the time I thought I was making an interesting image. I don't think I understood that I was making a self-portrait.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eTen years later, I keep returning to it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eCameras for heads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u2028\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eLenses covering eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u2028\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eWires.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u2028\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eMonitors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u2028\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eMachines entering bodies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eBodies disappearing into machines. The apparatus becoming the person. The person becoming the apparatus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eI spent twenty-five years looking through a piece of glass and being identified by what I carried in my hands. For most of my adult life, I documented other people's lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eNow I am trying to understand my own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'System Font'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'System Font'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eThe camera is still there. 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