"Forced Perspective" (II)

"Forced Perspective"

Pat Benatar - Outlaw Blues

Billy Joel - The Stranger

A great fan of Billy Joel's music since I first heard "The Stranger" in 1978, I took great care to make a suitable photomontage that honored the lyrics. In my interpretation, the protagonist is the only one who was able to see through the faces of "the stranger" at a trendy party and escape the trap, returning home in the dark, whistling through the streets of an empty city. The "cocktail party vixen" is the best of all these images.

Cream - In a White Room

One of my favorite songs, and one of my most elaborate photomontages, removed from YouTube for copyright reasons (along with a slew of others). A suitably Sixties protagonist at a train station, "where the shadows hide from themselves."

Kate Bush - Egypt

Kate Bush gets the Egyptian treatment for her song "Egypt" from the 1981 album "Never For Ever"

Follow the Nile
Deep to much deeper.
The Pyramids sound lonely tonight.

The sands run red
In lands of the Pharoahs.
Their symmetry gets right inside me.

I cannot stop to comfort them.
I'm busy chasing up my demon.
I cannot stop to comfort them.
I'm busy chasing up my demon.
Oh, I'm in love
With Egypt.

Lazy Nina

Lazy Nina was created as a protagonist for the song written by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, but admirably performed by Greg Phillinganes. The photomontage took advantage of the beauty of the Fall season to complement the song.