David Byrne Talking Back

By Eric Lorberer "In the future TV will be so good that the printed word will function as an art form only." — from "Music for the Knee Plays" You are one of our era's most gifted…

String Theory

"In Strange Ritual, a lush and genuinely beautiful 176-page collection of color photos taken over the past two decades, Byrne applies the 'string theory' to the spiritual dimension of the globe."

Talking Pictures

"Byrne would like his work to appear in more popular arenas. In conjunction with the San Francisco Camerawork exhibition, he makes his first entry into the controversial world of public art."

Artist Exhibits Prints From Book

"Byrne can make a series of standard fluorescent fixtures, an empty parking garage or a Japanese coffee-vending machine seem like surreal meditations on the human condition."

Still Making Sense

"Right after art school – I was taking Polaroids of friends. And I would stage Polaroids that were fake UFO evidence. With mirrors and sheets of glass you could make it look like there was a fuzzy object in the sky."

David Byrne Photo Book: Visual Chaos

"Combined with several essays and poems, these present a world that, to Byrne's eyes, is often appealing in its visual chaos. Sacred, even."

Byrne Marks

"There’s a number of photographers…one of the earliest I remember was this California guy, Ed Rushca, who used to take pictures of apartment buildings, gas stations, that sort of stuff, where the aesthetic was more about the choice of what was taken and the inventory than about making beautiful prints."

Some Bookish Questions for David Byrne

"...books are meant to be read, not treated as objects to be photographed, their function has been perverted and destroyed, any possibility of reading them denied."