Some Kinda Vocation - Cheryl Dunn
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It takes a gifted mind to stare normality in the face and see something more. Not extraordinary, so much as ‘perfectly’ ordinary.
While the rest of us float around in a desensitised daze – accepting everything, questioning nothing, never looking at anything twice – photographer-filmmaker Cheryl Dunn is spotting initiative where others see a dud: the homeless drunk (romantic dreamer); the stoner kid (political activist); the illiterate son of an alcoholic (established artist).
This collection of photos is a voyeuristic peek into her love affair with the street, and her earlier courtship with art and its process. A staple of the Beautiful Losers collective, Dunn has been shooting artists like Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen for years.
With an accompanying DVD, Creative Life Store, capturing the artists before the mainstream knew their names, this book-film combo is testament to what can happen when you look beyond the norm.
