{"id":1823,"date":"2010-07-14T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/spike_mafford_-_the_claim_of_n\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:07:36","slug":"spike_mafford_-_the_claim_of_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/spike_mafford_-_the_claim_of_n.html","title":{"rendered":"Spike Mafford &#8211; the claim of no claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Mafford takes photographs to erase himself. His claim is a romantic one, that wherever he is, he isn&#8217;t there. Because his subjects define themselves, they are not limited to theme or style. Mafford is nothing but the projectionist in a theater, running their movies. No one believes that a photograph has nothing to do with the photographer, any more than a painted ship upon a painted ocean owes nothing to the person standing in a studio holding the brush. <\/p>\n<p>And yet, in shrinking his role, Mafford has managed to enlarge the remote purity of a remote world.<br \/>\nPaul Krassner once described a way to tell the difference between<br \/>\nnews and dreaming. If you think what you&#8217;re reading is unlikely, flap<br \/>\nyour arms. If you fly, you&#8217;re dreaming. Mafford&#8217;s prints fly. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, he&#8217;s offering for sale 47 prints for $47 each, size variable. Details at the <a href=\"http:\/\/spikemafford.com\/spikeshop.php\">Spike Shop<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Examples:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spikemaffordmao.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/spikemaffordmao.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"403\" width=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spikemaffordwire.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/spikemaffordwire.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spikemaffordtwisp.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/spikemaffordtwisp.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"408\" width=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spikemaffordx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/spikemaffordx.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"409\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Mafford takes photographs to erase himself. His claim is a romantic one, that wherever he is, he isn&#8217;t there. Because his subjects define themselves, they are not limited to theme or style. Mafford is nothing but the projectionist in a theater, running their movies. No one believes that a photograph has nothing to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}