Tim Barrus Blog
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Going Rogue
THEANTIFASTORIES
every movement needs its heros/ every story in the shelf life of stories can become a legend/ even greece had its gods and sex and there is no god who is without guilt, treason, infidelity, murder, dystopia, and the apocalypse/ conflict, irony, rebellion, war, love, illicit love, a fetish,…
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AMERICA IS A DEAD CORPSE
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TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
We have seen the cliff, and we have jumped. There are no returns on this purchase.
To wit: the Democrats. At least sometimes they hold hands after they jump. But the result is always the same.
America is just another cultural corpse. Athens become one.…
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Physics
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At first, he could not sleep because the nightmares of the assault and rape were far too vivid. He wanted me to sit with him, and then, he would fall asleep. I read a series of books out loud, all of them on some pretty radical visions of what physics…
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U Can Write An Entire Sex Scene Just About the Eyes
so this morning, he turns over in his wondering where he is, and just before it all comes back to him, to face me with his bedroom eyes, and i am, as always, taking his photograph/ he rolls his eyes/ he asks if there is anything about me that has…
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you are not the emptiness you feel
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Men Love Him
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Tim Barrus Photography
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If He Had Lived
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It was a long time ago. I had been younger then.
Andrew and I were in bed in a hotel not from Plaza Park.
In the West, there was always a Plaza Park.
It was the idea that Tristan was famous that burned my ass. He changed how I saw…
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A PLAY THEY WROTE
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THEY CALLED IT FUCKING IN PAJAMAS
Do not demand that I censor them. There was no fucking in pajamas or in anything else. It was a play that explored submission, dominance, and vulnerability. This is far, far more complex than fucking in pajamas. These are not innocent children. They will…
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WHAT DOES THE PHOTOGRAPHER OWE THE DEAD
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I have been taking photographs for sixty years. It’s a blur. During that time, some of the people I have taken pictures of have died. Car crashes. Suicide. AIDS. Cancer. Covid. Cardiac arrest. The list goes on.
Some of the photographs of these people were taken while they were children.…