Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: The Songs of Eternity, 1994

NOW friends. These are really important photographs for me.

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As Minor White’s artist book The Temptation of St. Anthony is Mirrors (1948) is a visual love poem to Tom Murphy, so my artist book The Songs of Eternity (1994) is a visual love poem to my then long-time partner Paul. Both are exceedingly rare books: there are two copies of White’s book and there is one copy of mine.

And yes, the prints are even more beautiful in the flesh (so to speak).

Marcus

I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991 – 1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These photographs were images of my life and imagination at the time of their making, the ideas I was thinking about and the people and things that surrounded me.

All images © Marcus Bunyan but can be used freely anywhere with the proper acknowledgement. Please click the photographs for a larger version of the image. Please remember these are just straight scans of the prints, all full frame, no cropping !

*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN*

The Songs of Eternity

Images and poetry by M. Bunyan 1994

I stood at the edge of the precipice / and peered in as William Blake would say

The timepiece of eternity / swung hands through all the hours

so how naive I’ve been / not to see its powers

Did I deceive / or was I led

What a rude awakening / throughout my head

Many fabulous things were said /

many a doubt was in silence bled …

Nothing is certainty but the change – I was must be strong to attain

Depth, spirit, integrity and the rest

This affirmation I will confirm – not in conformity but in my own special way

Not this way nor that but my own path / that one day will whisper gently in my ear

Be strong, for we have much to say / when the sea becomes the sky.

Strong in your arms I become your scent

Lying in my bed the sheets of flowers enfold me

Trusting in my heart I know

Today    Yesterday    Tomorrow

Marcus Bunyan
Shroud
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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The Songs of Eternity

Marcus Bunyan
Paul, shadows
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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I stood at the edge of the precipice / and peered in as William Blake would say

Marcus Bunyan
Eternal timepiece
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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The timepiece of eternity / swung hands through all the hours

Marcus Bunyan
Paul, head covered
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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so how naive I’ve been / not to see its powers

Marcus Bunyan
Pendent #1
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Did I deceive / or was I led

Marcus Bunyan
Untitled
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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What a rude awakening / throughout my head

Marcus Bunyan
Untitled
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Many fabulous things were said /

Marcus Bunyan
Suspension #1
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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many a doubt was in silence bled …

Marcus Bunyan
Chrysalis
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Nothing is certainty but the change – I was must be strong to attain

Marcus Bunyan
Décolleté
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Depth, spirit, integrity and the rest

Marcus Bunyan
Paul, doorway (for Georgia O’Keeffe)
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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This affirmation I will confirm – not in conformity but in my own special way

Marcus Bunyan
Pendent #2
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Not this way nor that but my own path / that one day will whisper gently in my ear

Marcus Bunyan
Shadow, wreath
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Be strong, for we have much to say / when the sea becomes the sky.

Marcus Bunyan
Madonna, male
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Strong in your arms I become your scent

Marcus Bunyan
Suspension #2
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Lying in my bed the sheets of flowers enfold me

Marcus Bunyan
Paul, wreath and hands
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Trusting in my heart I know

Marcus Bunyan
Untitled
1994
From the series The Songs of Eternity
Silver gelatin photograph

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Today    Yesterday    Tomorrow

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