Stu Jenks' Fezziwig Press

"Nurse Wendy"

"Nurse Wendy, Crossroads Adult Care Home, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

 

Wendy, one of the caregivers at Mary's home. She, and others, take very good care of my mother and for that I am grateful.

"Blanket Mary"

"Blanket Mary Watching TV" (c) 2010, 2011 Stu Jenks

"Mary Ann & Scott"

"Mary Ann & Scott" (c) 2010 Stu Jenks

[This portrait of Mary Ann Hesseldenz and Scott Baker was conceived by them, using an evocative still from the film "A Single Man" as a jumping-off place. It was a joy to shoot their portrait and to work with them on this image. And if you are interested, go to their website to see award-winning interior design, furniture, and photography. They are very good people. They are my friends]

"Little Stu & Chester's Tail"

"Little Stu & Chester's Tail" (c) 1960 Stuart Jenks Sr. & 2010 Stu Jenks

From The 2009 All Souls' Procession

From The 2009 All Souls' Procession, Tucson, Arizona (c) 2009 Stu Jenks

[All images by Stu Jenks, except the bottom one of me in a kilt, taken by Tom Willett]

 

"Beaufort, South Carolina" by Robert Frank

"Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955" (detail) by Robert Frank

[Taken by me at the MOCA in Downtown Los Angeles in September. I had permission. Sadly, the images from "The Americans" series were very poorly lit, not like the same images I saw in August, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. There, they were exquisitely lit. This, and others in the series are perfect photographs: The woman's radiant face, the sun behind her, the light pole that echos the Cross. Perfect. Other memories from MOCA: LA that day, were a class of tweens taking a tour of the museum and having their teacher or a docent tell them that the poorly-crafted, arrogant, nightmares-on-a-wall they were seeing, were actually good paintings. The look on the kids' faces was priceless. Remember, it was a child who told the townspeople that the Emperor had no clothes on. Sadly, the schoolkids weren't in the room with "The Americans." I bet they would have looks of awe on their faces, not wrinkled-up noses. Hopefully they got to see them before they left.]

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." - Robert Frank.

"Twelfth Night: 2009"

Happy Epiphany, Twelfth Night, y'all.

These two pictures were taken near my bedroom window with the PhotoBooth attachment atop my new/old MacBook Pro. So weird. You don't even need a camera to take a arty photograph anymore. The computer does it for you. No matter. It is what it is. And you are reading a post by an old guy photog, who took a fifty-year-old Kodak Brownie, loaded with black-and-white film made in Croatia, to the top of high desert fault, on New Year's Day. I'll get the negs back tomorrow.

And may the Wise Guys show up at your door tonight, with money, incense and perfume. And a big piece of double chocolate cake.

"Karim Rashid Sultan Khan" by Platon

[From News.Spreadit.org]

Karim Rashid Sultan Khan:Colin Powell Meet The Press - Karim Rashid Sultan Khan who was a 20 year old Muslim American soldier born in New Jersey who was killed while fighting in the Iraq war was mentioned by Colin Powell on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier today.

Here are Colin Powell’s exact words.

"I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son’s grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards — Purple Heart, Bronze Star — showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old.

And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn’t have a Christian cross; it didn’t have the Star of David; it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life.

Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourselves in this way. And John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that, within the party, we have these kinds of expressions."

This picture of Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan’s mother Elsheba Khan, was taken by Platon for the New Yorker.

[One of the most moving photographs taken regarding this crazy war by the amazing photog Platon. And it was so refreshing to hear Colin Powell tell the truth. Seems the truth is the first casualty of war...and an ongoing casualty in presidental politics, as well. - S.J.]

"Self Portrait with Light Lasso"

"Self Portrait with Light Lasso, Pontatoc Trail, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2008 Stu Jenks

[Was dumping some images from IPhoto on my Mac this morning, when I found this photo. It was a failed photograph, in which, on a Full Moon night, I was working with some new Light Lassos I had made. I got a good shot from that session, that image being "See God, Kai", but this photograph, as a whole, didn't work at all. Then I saw a very small section of the image and was struck by how nice my face looked and how it showed the emotion of my intent, when I'm out shooting at night. So I cropped it out of the bigger digital neg, desaturated it and here it is; a nice image of my spirit, while it's traipsing around the desert on Lunar nights with camera and gear.]

"New York Dolls by the band Feed" (c) 2007

"Feed as New York Dolls, Hotel Congress, Tucson, Arizona" (c) 2007 Stu Jenks

[Topic Image: New York Dolls performed by Feed, December 7, 2007 at Club Congress. Charity concert to benefit the Tucson Artists and Musicians Health
Alliance.]

[From Front to Back; Krista Khrome as David Johansen, Geoff Notkin as Arthur Kane, Emerson Lyle as Johnny Thunders, Lance Saxerud as Jerry Nolan &
Sean Smith as Sylvain Sylvain]

[Bottom Two Images: "Geoff as Rock God", "Flying V as Rock God's Bass". All Images (c) 2007 Stu Jenks