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About Me

I am an Illustrator working in the United Kingdom Born Liverpool- Some time last century. Attended Liverpool and Canterbury College of Art.found this plain layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

In the After Life - Orson Welles/ Francois Truffaut/ Edward Gorey/ Edward Bawden/ Luis Bunuel/ Jean Vigo/ Jacques Demy/ Walerian Borowcyck/ Cary Grant.

ULRICH MUHE 1953 - 2007 RIP

Music:

Darius Milhaud/ Michel Legrand/ Reynaldo Hahn/ Georges Auric/ Maurice Jubert/ Georges Delerue/ Steve Reich/ John Adams/ Wim Mertens/ Charles Trenet/ Bernard Peiffer/ Raymond Fol/ Cheap suit serenadres/ Bill Evans/ Astor Piazzolla/ Yann Tiersen/ Sylvian Chauveau/ Serge Gainsbourg/ Paul Misraki/ Velvet Underground/ Talking Heads/ Johnny Cash/ Bob Dylan/ Laura Veirs/ John Cale/Carla Bruni/ Nino Rota/ Au Revoir Simone/Ladytron / Ry Cooder/ Leon Redbone/ Early Roxy Music/ His Name is Alive/Les Freres Perverts.

Movies:

Chimes at Midnight/ Orphee/ Bob le flambeur/ Jules et Jim/ The Conformist/ Atalante/ The Exterminating Angel/ North by Northwest/ Les Demoiselles de Rochefort/ L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad/ The Silence/ Lola/ Cleo from 5to7/ Mr Hulot's Holiday/ Its a Mad mad mad World /Bringing Up Baby/ Arsenic and old lace/My Darling Clementine/ The Searchers/ A Canterbury Tale/ La Jetee/Bande a Part/ Street of Crocodiles/ Les Mistons/Le Theatre de Monsieur et Madame Kabal/ Blanche/The Lives of Others.

Television:

Hancocks Half Hour /Seinfeld/ Sgt Bilko.

Books:

Burning The Days by James Salter./ Call at Corazon by Paul Bowles./ Anything by James Ellroy / Gore Vidal's Non fiction./ Mainly read biographies and non fiction.Oh and Big thick Art books with glossy pages.

Heroes:

My Mother and Father.

My Blog

Illustration - Exciting Times ?

I am costantly reading, what exciting times these are for Illustratiors and Graphic Designers . Do me a favour!! It seems to me, as if Illustration and Graphic Design is being taken over, by Hoxton* d...
Posted by John Montgomery on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:36:00 PST

My Lover

I lay my lover flat and sponge her down. She's damp now .... a little dampness helps.... it makes her swell, then stretch. I begin to prime her... over and over.... until my lover is cl...
Posted by John Montgomery on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:08:00 PST

A Life Out Of Focus

This extract is taken from - John Montgomery - A LIfe Out Of FocusPublished by The Harvill Kafe Press 1953.I am often asked about the circumstances and formats behind the photographs in my collection....
Posted by John Montgomery on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:46:00 PST