The Iconoclast Series is a visual tongue-in-cheek attempt to draw attention to the pictographs that have come to inform and control so much of modern life. I hope that viewing these images will bring an awareness of this burgeoning communication method, prompting viewers to ponder the proliferation of icons and question whether they enhance or degrade human communication. Besides, they're cute.

The mechanism that created these images was a Cardozo slit camera, a lensless device that uses two elongated pinholes to form an image. The image is distorted along the combined shape of the two slits. The photos were taken on 4x5 Ektachrome 64 tungsten-balanced film cross-processed to C41, further destroying the iconographic subjects. The final image is a standard C-print. There has been no digital manipulation.

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