All Photography is Autobiography

Media: photography

Number of images: 11

Print size: 16x20 inches

Execution: 2011 - 2024

1. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Mirror) 2024

2. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Hats) 2024

I have had three different Mohs surgeries for two different types of skin cancer over the last ten years. I use to eschew hats; now I don't.

3. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Eye Patch - post op eye surgery) 2023

4. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Pandemic Hair - 1,266 days without a haircut) 2023

Last haircut was February 25, 2020

5. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Hand, Ambulance, Pandemic) 2020

Self portrait outside a hospital.

6. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait in the Black-figure style) 2020

A self portrait in the 600 BCE Greek Attic style comprising of a black figure on a red background.

7. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Glasses) 2019

When I worked for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner (published from 1903 - 1989, in the Spanish Revival building designed by Julia Morgan for W.R. Hearst), I use to spend my down time in the morgue where all former stories (newspaper clippings) and photographs were stored in tall green cabinets ten to twelve feet high. The job of the employees who worked there were to pull photos for the editors for use (or reference) or to toss to make room for new ones that came from the staff photographers and wire services.
A photograph that was discarded (and I kept) was from Busby Berkeley's trial for manslaughter in 1935 (an automobile accident that he caused that killed 2 and injured 5). The photograph showed his glasses on the defense table in the courtroom. I always thought it was an fascinating document as it did not contain the individual but his visual aid.
My photograph, is a recreation of that anonymous 1935, press photograph.

8. All Photography is Autobiography (Self Portrait with Scar) 2018

The scar is from an endarterectomy.

9.1-3. All Photography is Autobiography (My Grandfathers Tool Chest: wrench, hand crank drill, pliers) 2011

Both of my grandfathers were "handy". One was a ship's carpenter; the other had knowledge of machinery and woodworking.
Kevin Flynn - Self Portrait with Mirror

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Mirror) 2024

[1]

Kevin Flynn - Self Portrait with Hats

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Hats) 2024

[2]

Kevin Flynn - Self Portrait with Eye Patch - post op eye surgery

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Eye Patch - post op eye surgery) 2023

[3]

Kevin Flynn - Self Portrait with Pandemic Hair - - 1,266 days without a haircut

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Pandemic Hair - 1,266 days without a haircut) 2023

[4]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - Self Portrait with Hand, Ambulance, Pandemic

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Hand, Ambulance, Pandemic) 2020

[5]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - Self Portrait in the Black Figure Pottery Style

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait in the Black Figure Pottery Style) 2020

[6]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - Self Portrait with Glasses

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Glasses) 2019

[7]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - Self Portrait with Scar

All Photography is Autobiography
(Self Portrait with Scar) 2018

[8]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - My Grandfathers Tool Chest

All Photography is Autobiography
(My Grandfathers Tool Chest: wrench) 2011

[9.1]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - My Grandfathers Tool Chestt

All Photography is Autobiography
(My Grandfathers Tool Chest: hand crank drill) 2011

[9.2]

Kevin Flynn - All Photography is Autobiography - My Grandfathers Tool Chest

All Photography is Autobiography
(My Grandfathers Tool Chest: pliers) 2011

[9.3]