this will be fun Brad
never looked at books
o some old painters
world stuff for teaching
not even my own li’l ones
feet w head in sands o time...
o bill

Bill Dane

hey Joseph goin to the woods water HAWKE typing machine + means leavin LA + distant
i will mostly get it breathe your fresher clambake sail ass off
+ Dan-Bill will know kdp asap needed
send me a signal if you put up "E"
or think of something I can help with
or you can me
no thanks Love Bill

Bill Dane

I have known four sensefull women Mary Foote Ann Swidler Joan Rosenbaum Nancy Rose Dulberg
may you know Monet Zulpo-Dane and Esther Dulberg Dane

Bill Dane

If Dan n I get the Adobe Lightroom5 template right & loaded looks real good
+ I can edit n tweak from the 600 pics work-fun-pleasure
+ I do will to keep my words anchored outta sight
+ I can Thank You JAD for setting the course to lucky li'lbilly island...
I be

Bill Dane

TAKK
We are testing to see if amozone-KDP can print the Joe-Bill book we want
It's not ready this test … but will cost $20
It looked real good … then went bad
Get off your sideline Bror whatever that means...

“Bill Dane Pictures” so far we gross $12,565 loan paid back we breathe


capitalism is savage
BLACK LIVES MATTER BROWN YOU Eco-Dem-Antifa Socialism offers us all survival
billdane.com

Bill Dane

amozone‘s #1,243,030_th place in Books 3/23/2021 just give us a few decades
capitalism is savage

Bill Dane

“Egregious” minny is also my head knees shins
after I bent over to pick up delivery och ouch
headfirst down our 7 cement steps to rest in bloody not bad


Bill Dane

Folks may say:
”Right now, I think I’m going to fire up a nice blunt and go to sleep!”

Please recommend blunt-material for an “anxiety-depressed” meg who should probably do edibles… ? You there ?

Bill Dane

Our Joe Dane-Bill Dane book will be ready at amōzōn in few days - link comin’...

Words & Photos done - structures in fucked-m-soft-WORD in-progress

Bill Dane

AND NOW!
I can begin to read your beauty words Joe even as you toil in billy-changes-tech-DooDoo for what we're worth…?
Fine Thank The Spirits

Bill Dane


I Do Know How Much Work YOU Do to Manage Book Production Madnesses Joe
You Nick n Dan are tested with my computer-program-tech-CHANGINGS...
I'm down with THANKS Joe ! Bill

​i knew not what i did​ until late on

Bill Dane


Folks are on my neck J
Screechin fer the repairation of those beginning pages
... FreeRead aint enuff here J Os B

Bill Dane

only a couple more pukeable words today Joseph A. Dane thank you

Bill Dane

Eric
Szarkowski made the comment about "too literal" to a mutual
Odd to some I never heard any opinions from him about mine
knew who's he liked everyone did-does I like theirs too
I'm inspired by my own evolvin'...
Tho I may never stroll again… workin on 2 books "cheap-affordable" for Folks
I see plenty fun stuff Flickr sharing
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_dane/
As soon as something is done by me-others I cant do it consciously

Bill Dane

Hugs are missing these days Eric
Apologies are good to me if? None needed!
Eric the book goes as You go with or w/o it
We did recover our loan! never the 50 yrs of overheads
Painterly is good I painted
Never considered pushing any envelopes but my own…

Bill Dane


Full day following full days
Finished Re-Fi
Finished FreeReadPress version of book w Joe (click: Two page view)
Joe submits to amōzōn for printed book
You find Nearest Truth
WTF taxes are still due


capitalism is savage
BLACK LIVES MATTER BROWN YOU
Eco-Dem-Antifa Socialism offers us all survival
billdane.com

Bill Dane


I first saw Bill Dane’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s. It impressed me then and continues to do so all these years later. Dane’s work reminds us of something very basic about this medium. At this point, nearly 200 years after photography’s invention, some might assume that it is “safe,” fully understood, with no remaining surprises. With its almost feral energy and intensity, Dane’s work proves otherwise. His photographs are everything at once: simple and mysterious, innocent and cunning, personal and universal, magical and mundane. They have the effect of a kind of cultural strobe light: individual images are jarringly immediate, the sum total both disorienting and revelatory. Dane makes the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. Vision becomes an act of existential, not merely factual, assertion. I see, therefore I am.
Keith F. Davis

I recall hearing about Bill Dane in the 1970s - the photographer who sent his images free to a number of people whose judgement he admired. It seemed somewhat unusual, rather Hippy: now it is what many of us do on Instagram. I see Bill's gesture as belonging to that valuable thing, Gift culture. Later I saw his photographs in magazines and exhibitions and - forty years later - find I never forgot them: images with real poetic content in which we have to invest our minds and feelings.
Finally, this wonderful new book shows that Bill prompted the great John Szarkowski to write some of his very best sentences.
Mark Haworth-Booth​

“It seems to me that the subject of Bill Dane’s pictures is the discovery of lyric beauty in Oakland, or the discovery of surprise and delight in what we had been told was a wasteland of boredom, the discovery of classical measure in the heart of God’s own junkyard, the discovery of a kind of optimism, still available at least to the eye.” John Szarkowski, director of photography, Museum of Modern art 1962-1991
I received Bill Dane’s wonderful book, Bill Dane Pictures …it’s not pretty.  50 Years of Photographs I’m still in love, in the mail today.  
For those unfamiliar with his work, Dane has been actively photographing the world around him for over 50 years.  Since 1969 he has generously mailed 69,000 of his photographs as postcards to people.  More recently he has been active on Flickr where he continues day in and day out to share his world with the rest of us.
Yesterday he shared a diner scene from Tracy, California in 1970, earlier today he shared a bit more abstract flower from Oakland in 2011.  
As you work through his flickstream you find yourself moving from Las Vegas in 1972 to Mexico City in 1974 to Olympia, Washington in 2018.  The one constant thing is that Bill is there with his camera walking you through his unique view of the world.  His view of the world, as his book title admits, is not always pretty, but it is like no other photographer you’ve probably ever seen.  It’s not easy work to get through but it’s rewarding when you do.
Accompanying his images in the book are his own sttaccato like typed words.  Like a beat poet Bill opines on his own photographic path as well what he sees around him — words to go with the pictures.  It’s part personal history/biography, part documentary, part politics, part life vision — always poetic.
“Hunt treasure   strike-snap-gather   edit   judge
I still photograph like it’s 1969   sort of
Advancing  weaving  focused scanning   dam  Bill  hold still
Leica Rangerfinders  straightforward refinement  guess settings real good
Film has wonder dept   forging Tri-X  darkrooms   mail
Costco for color prints to edit  send
2007 My last film camera  Contax SLR zoom-macro
Digital  Nikon D80 with the 28-105 macro”
In my own artist’s statement, I quote the great Charles Bukowski who once said that endurance is more important than truth.  As far as endurance goes Bill’s got it.  He’s got it in spades and you have to admire that.  Bill’s spent time hanging out at workshops with Friedlander and Arbus.  He’s had shows at MoMA, his photographs hang in the permanent collections of MoMA, SFMOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago — and yet here he is day in and day out still putting work up out there for the public where?  At Flickr? Yes, at our beloved Flickr.
Interestingly enough the title of Bill’s book actually comes from Bukowski’s poem “I Met A Genius.”  The poem is about a 6 year old boy on a train ride with Bukowski who sees the sea for the first time and remarks upon seeing it that “it’s not pretty.” It’s the sort of innocent honest insight that can come from a child who has not been saddled down with society’s version of the sea as a remarkable and beautiful scene, the way most artists might present it.
Bill gives us a messy world, it’s not always pretty, but it’s worthwhile to see it as he shares it. It is a bit of a junkyard as Szarkowski suggests, but there is beauty in the junkyard as well.
Weighing in at over 300 pages of high quality printing and limited to only 500 copies, do yourself a favor and pick this one up before it sells out and before one of these big name museums decides to do a retrospective. You’ll have an original collector’s item. Bill Dane is a treasure — and so are his flickrstream and book.
Thomas Hawk

For several years now, I’ve been jonesing for someone to put together a proper catalog of Bill Dane’s strange and wonderful photographs. That someone turned out to be the man himself (with the help of Dan Skjæveland), which is a real treat because this book is just as wild and unruly and generous as the pictures it contains.
Tim Carpenter, Selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 for photo-eye

Five decades in the making, we are finally delivered a worthy book of words and images by the great American iconoclast, Bill Dane. On this wintry day, I raise a warm glass to our playful destroyer of conditioned seeing. There is kindness in his rage.
Mark Steinmetz

Bill Dane is one of a minuscule number of photographers to have had a solo show at MOMA (1973). Dane was a huge part of the postcard art scene starting back in the sixties and estimates he mailed over 69,000 photographic postcards. He's always called himself a street photographer, but I would call him a street photographer with a strong metaphysical bent. He loved crafting images of images, early on, often ephemera and cultural detritus that would soon disappear, reframing these strange visual narratives that sought to sell us something or sell us on something. I'm fairly certain he did this before that became a vogue with artists like Richard Prince. In other words, he was early in on the postmodern shift.
Dane has been an advocate for the oppressed for the entirety of his career. This book includes text written by the photographer that documents that struggle year by year. And you get to meet many of his celebrated colleagues along the way.
I first met Dane a number of years ago and have appreciated his art and friendship equally since then. I'm happy to have been able to contribute some words on Bill's important art to this book. And I'm happy to have exhibited my artwork alongside his, thanks to his generosity and friendship.
I'll defer to Blake Andrews writing in Collector Daily for a better description of the contents of the book.
William B. Keckler

Reintroducing a star from yesteryear is a complicated task. Where does one start? …it’s not pretty tackles everything in one fell swoop. This huge volume includes a quick primer on Dane’s early monochrome years, a selective chronology of highlights since, free-form diaristic chunks of Dane’s life story, and bits and pieces from the art world, showcasing critical reactions and commentary. Such a multitask is probably beyond the scope of any single title, but this one succeeds on a certain level. Its multifaceted form conveys a strong sense of Bill Dane as artist and wonderfully eccentric personality. Dense with information, chaotic, peculiar, and beautiful, the book hews closely to its subject.
Blake Andrews Collector Daily

I read, re-read, and re-re-read every word and tried to absorb the pictures…it felt like experiences, words, memories and dreams pulled through my mind-eye with no way to stop it - just organic pulsing resonances with my own experiences….and then on again….
Gus Kayafas

Bill Dane’s pictures stump me, casting a spell that is enigmatic, bizarre and mysterious.
His penetrating vision has powerfully pushed the snapshot aesthetic into new places
revealing an America we would have not seen otherwise and begin to understand..
Thank you Bill.
Jeff Mermelstein

“222 photograph-pages and 100 text-pages, this self-published Book shows us a world via my good doctor William Thacher Bill Dane.”
Anon

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