JacobsonBio

The Honey Land Review
Spring 2009
Volume 1, Issue 2

BIO:

Jacobs

was born in March of 1955, Manhattan, NY of

Polish/

Jewish/ Survivors. My

parents

followed the borsch belt

to Miami where my

father became an itinerant photographer. At

first

working with a

man with

a pony, then going from one

beachside hotel to another. Sometimes

would go to the local

pier

for a large shark or fish to drape across his hood

so people

could

have

their picture taken with it. It was

“Stand here, hand on

hip, head back, and say cheese”.

Coming

back the next day with

the proofs

in one

of those plastic one-eye-peepers and hoping to

sell a

couple of

enlargements. Anything to make a buck

(which is

what he charged for a

one eye

peeper). It was a hell of a way to

make a living, and it still amazes

me that I have this love for

photography that I do, unlike my father ever

had.

RTIST'S STATEMENT:

The people I most like to work with not only see their selves as

the star in

some elaborate movie

but are

hearing the sound track

as well. My ideal is to

take that self-image (however bizarre or

unusual) and

become cameraman,

producer and director.

Working with them to produce a

plausible image

that satisfies

both, trying not to destroy any of that fantasy.

Sometimes

those

images stand on their own, other times

I take those images

and work

them into some form that

typifies or amplifies the

fantasy, Be it a poster or

postcard (art forms in and of them

selves)

thus completing the magic.

now live within drinking

distance of

the wine country and am working

on a

number of

projects as well as doing commissions

S.N. JACOBSON