Assemblies of Magic silas-finch Essay by Klaus Ottmann

Essay by Klaus Ottmann

and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South

In Exercise at Home

to act upon her and to act up—or down—for the camera

Editor James Allen

Assemblies of Magic silas-finch Essay by Klaus OttmannEssays by Klaus Kertess and Francine Koslow Miller Meditations on space, art, war, death, and religion merge with the homoerotic in John OReillys intensely personal photo transformations. For this artist, montage has proved the richest medium for personal allegory, and the formal and symbolic evolution of OReillys work corresponds to his own awakening self discovery. His working methods of cutting and pasting mirror the energy inherent in