Individual portraits are made of a married couple or two persons involved in an intimate relationship. These separate portraits are spliced together to make one image—a souvenir symbolizing the bonds of this couple’s relationship.
I began making this series of photographs when it occurred to me that some couples visually resemble each other. My first composite photographs were a test to see if my theory was true. My thesis was that a person is often attracted to another when they recognize something of themselves in that person. In other words, one may be more comfortable around a person of the opposite sex if they share some of the same physical attributes.
These portraits have a secondary meaning: when the male is spliced together with the female—a representation bi-sexual being is created. The composite Couples image represents the male and female qualities in all of us. VIEW MORE
Bobby Neel Adams
—Bobby Neel Adams, Couples, Eckleburg No. 22
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Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border. Adams has exhibited worldwide and his photographs are in the permanent collections of: International Center for Photography, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Station Museum, diRosa Foundation, and the Norton Family Foundation to name a few. Adams has received grants and awards from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, LEF Foundation, MacDowell Art Colony and the Hermitage. His book Broken Wings was published by the Greenville Museum in 1997. Adams is currently working on a series of Memento Mori photographs of insects, birds, and mammals. He is the Eckleburg No. 22 featured artist. Read more at bobbyneeladams.com.
