tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56599252011-04-21T13:53:00.191-04:00Japhyotype - Portraits and Views 1824-1928Being herein the recently discovered work of late 19th century/early 20th century artist and raconteur, Japhy Grant.Japhynoreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1102732023436797782004-12-10T21:27:00.000-05:002004-12-10T21:27:03.436-05:00I was drunk and took 15 photos of this boy. I don't even remember his name, but he was a "Southern Gentleman" and that's all I needed. That- and another g&t. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1102731530093587392004-12-10T21:18:00.000-05:002004-12-10T21:18:50.093-05:00'Round these parts we call her "Proud Marie." Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1102731324779279652004-12-10T21:15:00.000-05:002004-12-10T21:15:24.780-05:00Matthew's cat makes the headlines. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1102731271958293722004-12-10T21:14:00.000-05:002004-12-10T21:14:31.956-05:00Back in my Washington Heights hovel, I thought I was Keith Harring. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285817819475922004-11-24T03:43:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:43:37.820-05:00M.S. making his mother proud that she paid for all that dental work. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285710091359792004-11-24T03:41:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:41:50.090-05:00In spite of the fact I look like Mary Hart on Botox, I think this photo really captures the feelings of its subjects (It should be noted that earlier in the evening I passed around a note saying "C-- has herpes. Pass it on.") Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285519686155402004-11-24T03:38:00.001-05:002004-11-24T03:38:39.686-05:00Seconds later, knives were drawn. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285481205359172004-11-24T03:38:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:38:01.206-05:00Why I don't ask, "Can I take your picture?" Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285421165457782004-11-24T03:37:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:37:01.166-05:00While too drunk to be sure, we're pretty sure it's the beginning of a native dance. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285328153128602004-11-24T03:35:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:35:28.153-05:00Republican National Conference Fundraising Event- Witchita Falls, KS Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285230059456042004-11-24T03:33:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:33:50.060-05:00And Angelino's wonder why I say their nightlife sucks. For the record, MONDAY night in NYC. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285129033670842004-11-24T03:32:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:32:09.033-05:00I'm like a young Fassbinder, really. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1101285066818939702004-11-24T03:31:00.000-05:002004-11-24T03:31:06.816-05:00Contrary to the rumors, he doesn't have herpes. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100477585798421472004-11-14T19:13:00.000-05:002004-11-14T19:13:05.796-05:00Reason # 6 To Get Up Early in L.A.: Better chance of seeing bad weather. Yes, this overcast drizzle is considered "bad weather" in L.A. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100477447906959222004-11-14T19:10:00.000-05:002004-11-14T19:10:47.906-05:00A Ducky Day: Commercialism and crooked glasses make Japhy sad. Why won't anyone tell me my glasses are crooked?!? Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100469941022074882004-11-14T17:05:00.000-05:002004-11-14T17:05:41.023-05:00A Ducky Day: I'm like, super-pensive all the time. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100469603429200172004-11-14T17:00:00.000-05:002004-11-14T17:00:03.430-05:00A Ducky Day: Some people think that being shot from above makes you look better. Proof that those people lie. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100469304958584272004-11-14T16:55:00.000-05:002004-11-14T16:55:04.956-05:00A Ducky Day: Look carefully and you can see my ass. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100469161727446442004-11-14T16:52:00.000-05:002004-11-14T16:52:41.726-05:00L.A. Public Library or Pretty Desktop Wallpaper: You decide. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100469000778164302004-11-14T16:50:00.000-05:002004-11-14T16:50:00.776-05:00A Ducky Day: Why hasn't anyone told me my glasses are crooked? Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100468774385481842004-11-14T16:46:00.000-05:002004-11-14T16:46:14.386-05:00A Ducky Day: Look carefully and you can see my ass. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1100468754251271972004-11-14T16:45:00.000-05:002004-11-14T16:45:54.250-05:00It's an angel's dress Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1091993733587144542004-08-08T15:35:00.000-04:002004-08-08T15:35:33.586-04:00This self portrait was taken at Yale during Japhy's induction into the Skull & Bones Society. Some have said that looking at him here, it's possible to see that he knew someday he would be hunted down by the very organization that first brought him to prominence. Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066952817020778182003-11-06T07:35:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:04:40.930-05:00 Two Housing Projects (2002, Digital C-Print, Size Various) By 26, Japhy had spent the family fortune and taken up being a switchman for the B&0 Railroad. It was while sending Baltimore to Toledo that he came upon the novel idea of photographing static objects while traveling at high speeds. The above is one such work.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066952320767406092003-11-03T07:38:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:04:24.930-05:00 Self Portrait with Sunglasses and Mud (2003, Digital C-Print, 8"x10") This epigraph proceeded Japhy Grant's 1899 manifesto If You Bitches Won't Love Me Then I Won't Love Me!: "All self-portraits are wish fufillments." This one appears to be no exception.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066952005806975442003-10-31T07:33:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:04:09.730-05:00 Reedy Creek Station or Overpriced Ashtray (2003, Digital Print, Size Various) Japhy Grant was a man deeply troubled by the Russian Revolution. While this work seemingly reflects those concerns, they, in fact, do not.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066950663679336742003-10-29T07:11:00.000-05:002003-10-29T17:22:23.763-05:00 Girl on Train and Stranger (2002, Digital Print, 32"x30") The earliest work in our collection, it was saved fom near destruction at the hands of our initial curator, Joshua Rorosian, who, after a three day cocaine binge, tried to set the piece- and himself- on fire.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066950172927914182003-10-27T06:52:00.000-05:002003-10-29T17:22:11.620-05:00 Laundrymat (2002, Digital C=Print 8"x10") For over thirty years, Japhy had his laundry taken care of by his mother. When she finally passed on (or rather, faked her death. Evidence suggests that she moved west and changed her name to Georgia to avoid her tyrannical son) Japhy went to the laundry for the first time by himself. The moment changed his life and this photo was the result. "Next Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066949687351110222003-10-24T08:54:00.000-04:002003-10-26T18:01:02.753-05:00 The Election Pary Invitation (2000, Digital Image, Size various) Created for a party thrown in honor of his estranged second cousin Ulysses, Japhy's 1868 invitation is nothing if not unduly prescient.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066949136281499932003-10-23T18:45:00.000-04:002003-10-23T18:45:35.973-04:00 Master Opacity #1 (2003, Digital Canvas Print, Size Various) Master Opacity #2 (2003, Digital Canvas Print, Size Various) "We always knew his habit of pouring mercury on his skin and watching it absorb in to his skin was dangerous to his mental health, but it was not until he exhibited his Master Opacity Series at the Tokyo Exposition of 1917 that we realized just how dangerous it really was.Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066948601180010512003-10-22T18:36:00.000-04:002003-10-23T18:46:39.240-04:00 Furniture Warehouse (2002, Digital C-Print 8"x10") While lying on his deathbed in Palm Springs, devastated by the loss of his investemts in Cheekie-O's, which like most stocks , had become worthless on Black Tuesday, the ailing Japhy Grant said this about the above work, " If only there wasn't a damn tree in front of that building! Then I could read what those signs are saying! Won't somebodyJaphynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1066948307901169072003-10-21T18:31:00.000-04:002003-10-23T18:46:53.316-04:00 Foot Locker Tower (2002, Digital C-Print 8"x10") Is it a bird, is it a plane or is it man's never ending quest to build ever larger and higher phallus' onto the landscape? Found on the reverse of the original, the following couplet was found scrawled, its author unknown: "Oh cindered column of sunlight strapped hue Let me take you in my mouth and there, suck on you."Japhynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659925.post-1060362902328378552003-08-08T13:15:00.000-04:002003-10-23T18:47:13.830-04:00 Donkey Park (2002, digital Print, size various) This image, perhaps Mr. Grant's most well-known work, began life as a number of separate images. The owner of the eponymous donkey came out and attacked Japhy with a broom while he was shooting it. In a 1894 interview, Mr. Grant said, "This old bitty, she come out at me like she was, you know- gonna cut me! Turns out some of local thugs done Japhynoreply@blogger.com