Danish Kiss
george dinhaupt, 1999

With this great story from Erwin Olaf in Amsterdam 
I want to show everybody how we KISS in Denmark, EVERYDAY!

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Erwin Olaf

Last night around half past eleven, after very well and have dinner on the terrace of restaurant Razmataz, at the Hugo de Groot Square in Amsterdam center / west, stood my friend, Kevin Ray Edwards and I to kiss each other in addition to our bicycles on the edge of the terrace. We obstructed the passage and nobody fell bother anyone. From behind the counter of a nearby takeaway restaurant / snack bar, a man shouted to us that we had to stop and thus out of sight had to be kissing. When we did this a step closer, because we thought not good to hear, he was angry and forbade us to kiss his terrace. Something we did not listen to the contrary, we gave each other a kiss and told him loudly that we can marry, so we should kiss each other everywhere. Now that appeared one of his delivery couriers, and exhorted us to go away. We refused because we were not on his terrace and argued that if we stood well, it was still in this city and this country to another, wherever they are kissing. The tone on both sides was now very bright and all the bystanders could hear us. Some began to get involved. Similarly, the wife of the snack holder. They argued that their duty was to remove us from the terrace. The owner tried to convince us to challenge him a first blow it, or him and his delivery to insult, by virtue of their appearance.
Fortunately, we found that total control and irrelevant. Now began more people get involved and I yelled at one of the bystanders, too hard, but very sincerely, that nobody knows how it is to repeatedly encounter unfamiliar people in public, which negatively interfere with our loves and / or sex life. Something me for years to great outbursts of anger drives.  Kevin and I took another bite and this started again very extensive and intense to kiss each other. There was now loud applause from the terrace of Razmataz!
We now made our bikes apart and then drove away, leaving behind a group of quarreling bystanders.
Now I have a question: Would it be an idea to Wednesday 15 August at 20.30 as of this snack bar at the Hugo de Groot Plein 5 INN to keep a KISS? Many people, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, no matter what, which together stand lovingly kissing. So to show that after the opening of civil marriage for same sex everywhere, absolutely everywhere in the Netherlands our affection for each other may show.
If you find this a good idea and can join or leave a message! With sufficient interest seems to me very sensible to carry out this plan.
Although located Canal Pride and Festival Milkshake just behind us.

By Erwin Olaf & translated from Dutch using Google Translate

With images in the show, "Life Is Short & So Am I", I am so pleased and honored to help with XVY Gallery in LA and my friend Tetsuji over these last few months.  It is another lesson on the virtues of working with friends toward a common goal . . .
Everyday

In 1979 I went to Denmark to study.

Being inquisitive, I was often out-and-about: seen here in my host's Simca.

Today, 32 years later, I'm back:

Celebrating my Birthday; staying with the friends who tolerate me every year for a week or so--if nothing else, they like my cooking; spending time with new friends that I have met over the years; even enjoying a little romance with someone very special.

I'll be back in New York on the 10th of November to attend the benefit for the new Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay Art; I will gift some of m y work for the auction; and I will definately have a little romance with someone who loves me as I am. Yes, Georgie back in 'da Big Apple'. Something Everyday!

"Untitled", Xerographs #1, 2011.

Collecting documents as I go--this

collection

from the 90's,--I'm interested in sharing

my personal experiences as part of a

greater discussion

of cultural values and boundaries. This has always

required a certain amount of risk taking

involving personal and interpersonal decisions about

self-disclosure, confidentiality, and trust. I always consider it a blessing

when others agree to collaborate.

georgie

By A&U | March 7th, 2011 Photographer George Dinhaupt Explores the Beauty and Importance of Human Diversity by Brent Calderwood.

Born in Los Angeles, George Dinhaupt has been exhibiting his portrait photography since the early 1990s. Formerly a truck driver by profession, Dinhaupt dusted off his old camera in 1991 after he was sidelined by a car accident; a year later, his work was part of a show in Southern California.

Dinhaupt refers to much of his work as “honorific portraiture,” which originally referred to the large-scale iconography of pharaohs and Caesars; Dinhaupt repurposes the ancient tradition to depict people with HIV, men of color, and a wide array of bodies and body types.
In the second century, muscular busts of the aging Hadrian sent one kind of political message; in the second millennium, a very different political message is conveyed by Dinhaupt’s honorific portrait of a subject he refers to as “Saint Felippe,” which hangs in the permanent collection at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery in New York City. Nude and attached to an IV, the subject’s unmistakable ease and mirth subvert ideas about illness and honorability. In Dinhaupt’s deft hands, seeming opposites like ease and disease, levity and gravitas, feel integrated and natural.

Dinhaupt’s influences are as diverse as his subjects and styles. His black-and-white studio portraits, as in his “With Us” series, are redolent of Robert Mapplethorpe, while much of his more recent work, utilizing natural light and candid settings like roadside diners, point to the snapshot and documentary aesthetics of Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie.

I received this with interest and some confusion, sus-picion, over-reaction, and everything that goes along with an awarness of and sensitivity toward negation. . .

"Works on Paper" at Colonial House Inn.

The works are installed and the opening on Friday afternoon was a success. The show, featuring Tai Lin and Myself coincides with the College Art Association conference in NYC. Tai is showing examples of his Pastel on Black Paper and I am featuring this image from my Zine project--a contribution to Zine created by Robert Summers.