Pat Truax

"Waterfall Galleria" Black and White Figurative Photography

1960's

Buddhism in Burma is practiced by 90% of the country's population and is predominantly of the Theravada Tradition. Monks, collectively known as the sangha, are venerated members of B...

Birds Nest, used to make a soup of the same name and an expensive delicacy in South East Asia, is harvested at this small island located in Phrang Nga Bay, Thailand. There are a resi...

Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was established in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VIII. The photo...

The Holy Man or High Priest is called Ida Pedanda and belongs to the Brahmana High Caste in Balinese society. They preach, teach, and perform ceremonies. The Pedanda dresses all in w...

On a hot sweltering day, a man reigns supreme over his kingdom in the back streets of Ha Noi, Vietnam. The photograph is professionally dry-mounted to archival backing with archival ...

A young girl takes a moment from her work in the rice fields to look up with a warm and welcoming smile in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The photograph is professionally dry-mounted to archiv...

Jack took this photograph of music lovers hanging out and talking shop in the Times Square Records store around 1963. Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper Edition of...

Originally a graphic artist, he picked up the camera in New Orleans, honed his craft there photographing his life, friends, and street scenes, and eventually decided to pursue a care...

Jack captured his own reflection against a lingerie display in New York in the mid 1960s. The window advertises the "luau sarong set for cruises," the "Happy Days are Here Again" lace set...

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...

“It was shot on a grey misty day on Dungeness Beach in Sussex. Charlie Wood lit the sky rocket and stood to attention, and I fired the flashgun that was stuffed into his trousers to ...