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Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox

Evansville's Kevin Bacon

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator Internationally known photographer, Jim Cox, grew up in the mean suburbs of Evansville, Indiana where the North Kisses the South. He spent many lean years shooting various events to reach where he is now. Jim has had work displayed in multiple venues including The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science and New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. His work has won awards, has appeared in various publications, been on a CD cover, is in the permanent collection of The Evansville Museum and is viewed around the world.

Jim holds a certificate of professional photography from the New York Institute of Photography. He belongs to The Fine Arts Camera Club, The International Freelance Photographers Organization and is a contract photographer for the Associated Press.

Why are you looking at MySpace when you can be viewing my photos at http://www.philosophic-photo.com

You can visit his fan club at http://groups.myspace.com/jimcoxfanclub

My Interests

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have been in love with creating photographs since the mid 1970s. It is an on again, off again love affair. My first 35 mm was a Yashica IC Rangefinder that I purchased at a pawn shop. It gave me the sensation of a new lover at a seedy hotel, though I hadn't had a real lover at that time. My first real SLR was a virgin Canon AE-1. I still have both of these cameras and every camera purchased since. Partially because I don't like to get rid of certain things in general, but specifically I don't like to get rid of any of my photography equipment, like old love letters. Photography, like new love is magical.

Every artist, everyone, to at least some extent is influenced by one or more people they know, have seen their work, read about, etc. I am not a fanatic of any one photographer's work. Instead, I appreciate many different photographers' visions. For example Helmut Newton and André Kertész are photographers who I admire. They are two very different photographers who share mostly the label of photographer (and death) in common. That is how different my body of work can be. We are taught as artists that buyers, employers, viewers want a consistent look. They want to view a piece of work and say, "Jim Cox was obviously the photographer." If one looks at my work in categories, I believe I have a unified theme. If one looks at it as a whole, then one may be lost in the various subject matters of which I like to photograph.

Although at times the whole may seem unrelated, the images I like the most are the ones that I find to be humorous or ironic and occurring by accident. Or I like an angle or view of a subject that not every other photographer is currently doing. That is my unifying force. In the final analysis I hope my work reflects things others may not see, but make the viewer think, "Oh!"

I'd like to meet:

• Galleries
• Clients
• Models
• Makeup Artists
• People interested in photography as more than snapshots or ways to meet girls/boys

Heroes:

André Friedmann
Arthur Fellig

My Blog

Burlesque

If any of you are interested in being part of a Burlesque troupe in Evansville:Auditions Will be held at:105 Adams Avenue (The Poet House)Evansville, Indiana47713Wednesday, November 30th@7pm SHARP!Ple...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:20:00 PST

How to Live Cheaply and Be Entertained in the Evansville Area (bump)

This seems more important than ever, so I'm going to try and bump it up.New added to bottom of "Entertainment"FOOD:10/26/05 At a restaurant, fill up on the free bread, salad, etc. and take the main co...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:45:00 PST

Exhibit Over

Time marches on and my exhibit is now down:My display was at ONB. This is a multi-step process, as all the things I do seem to be.Step 1: Select the images to be put in the show. ~ CheckStep 2: Print/...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Sat, 17 May 2008 08:42:00 PST

If You Want To Model For Me ...

Greetings from planet me. There has been a lot of interest from models lately in posing for me. That's absolutely great and I'm flattered. Although some photographers like to focus on hot, half clothe...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:13:00 PST

Good Friday, Good Golly What Have I Been Doing

This past Tuesday I received a clean bill of health, without restrictions, from my surgeon on my gallbladder surgery, two weeks after the "chronic irritation" appendage was removed. The stab marks are...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:56:00 PST

Phase III The Final Phase

It is done. My massive, many week project of copying all my digital files to an external hard drive and then backing that up to a hard drive to be taken off site was finished yesterday. Now, once the ...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:48:00 PST

Computer Update

I have my new computer. When trying to transfer over all my files from my old computer I got an error, twice, doing it different was. It worked fine on the "other new" computer. So I basically had to ...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:52:00 PST

Why Nothing New (Computer Update)

There was a voice mail on my cell phone I just heard this morning. Good news/Bad news. The bad news is that it will be at least another five days without the new computer. The good news is that they a...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:00 PST

Inactions speak louder than words.

This goes out to a number of people not all are on MySpace:" You say you are going to clean up your mess after a specific event. Previous to this event you had a month and a half of doing practically ...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:38:00 PST

New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art

I'm now currently represented by the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. The gallery is located at 506 Main Street, New Harmony, Indiana.For further information, one may contact:Erika Myers-Bromw...
Posted by Philosophic Photography® ~ Jim Cox on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:39:00 PST