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A Portrait of David Kraeuter These photographs explore the life of radio collector David Kraeuter. I began working on this series in 2004 while filming a black and white narrative-style 'silent film' in Super 8mm format named "Tube". In 2005 I made a study of Kraeuter and his radios as a video documentary. Even though I'm not a collector of radios myself, I continue to be interested in the aesthetics of old-time radios. In the present series I interpret David Kraeuter and his fascination with vacuum tube technology through still life and portrait photography. While the images in this series are not always literal, much less documentary, they do have a poetic style that expresses Kraeuter's life as a collector and his passion for this disappearing technology. --Allen C. Benson
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