Mouth, 2013

plane, 2013

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Window, 2013

Row Houses, 2013

Derrick F., 2008

Maiden of the Lot, 2015

Sunday Drive, 2012

​Double Self, 2013

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selected images

TV Series with Poems

Allegory for the Present: Merwin Belin & Dennis Reed, Los Angeles Harbor College Art Gallery, 2016

a

powerful

longing

so

often

denied

while looking

for short-term

answers

in 

pondered

mysteries

of long

lost

histories

​

​Face (ATM Robbery), 2008

selected poems

White Door, 2012

​​​dennis reed photography

more

than a measure

of solace

more

than

serendipity

sudden

burst of 

truth 

pale

in

comparison

to cool

dry

memory

all content © dennis reed 

an 

unhappy

childhood

whose

dark inner

vision

often

required

intervention

transformed

the 

intention

please

do not

​mention

​tv  series (with poems)

Capturing images on live news, often of crime, was the beginning of this series. Later, Dennis extended the series into images from the often vapid world of TV entertainment, especially programs featuring violence.

The poems began as a parallel to the photographic practice of appropriating images. The poems were written by borrowing phrases from obituaries (Dennis always read them first when the morning paper arrived). Each phrase borrowed from the obituary was divided into three lines. The poems were constructed combining five of these three lined phrases, for a total of fifteen lines. 

He prefers to show the poems as a triptych with two photographs.