“That’s a photo I absolutely adore. It’s a picture of a kid sitting on a beer keg, playing a handheld cheap little casio piano. Behind him there’s another kid leaning on the bar looking out the window and the sun is washing on his face. It’s two kids in a bar. That was taken in Portugal. So Elliott was looking through this book of contact sheets asking me to print them. “
Kurt Gebauer 1992, Husova Street – Mira Kay
“I was in Prague. I was doing this walkabout. I was twenty two. I started in Lisbon and ended up in London. I went all through Spain and into Morocco up through Italy. I had had all these wild adventures along the way and gotten used to sleeping in hostels. I was wandering around Prague a lot and came by this museum of contemporary art. There was this installation outside of people hanging, dangling from wires like they were falling. Not so much jumping but kind of falling in a soft way, like floating. And I took a picture and there you go.”
“Prague. Outside a museum. There are strings and I think you can see them in the original. He made a photocopy. There are two more of my photos on his records. I took the photo of the Ferris wheel on the back of one (Vienna) and there is a picture of a boy playing a keyboard sitting on a barrel in Portugal.”
JJ Gonson