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My first experience behind the camera was at the Louisville Zoo, while on a fifth-grade field trip with my class from Mercer County Elementary School. With my Polaroid Swinger, I photographed two seals swimming in a  concrete pool. From then on, I knew reality was subjective and could be re-arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was born in Danville, KY in 1958, the year Gibson introduced the Flying V guitar.  In high school, I was the yearbook photographer, and learned how to process B+W film and print photographs. I spent hours poring over rock magazines and LP covers, and was very influenced by the English artist Roger Dean. At the University of Kentucky, I studied journalism, took many photographs, and was introduced to the filmmaker Federico Fellini, whose vivid imagery was revelatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1980, I drove across country in a Dodge station wagon, on my way to San Francisco.  I found work as a photographer’s assistant, and began to learn the craft of commercial photography.  The world seemed to open up to me, and I reveled in it.  Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Robert Frank, and punk rock played a big role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began to work with alternative film processing, Polaroid transfer images and other pre-digital photographic techniques in my fine art work.  Digital technology brought sweeping changes and fundamentally changed the idea of image creation.  In my new work, I use everything I have learned to further define my art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography has enabled me to see parts of the world I could only imagine.  I know I have done my best when the images have the ring of truth.  Sometimes joyful, some times tragic\u2026it goes on and on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first experience behind the camera was at the Louisville Zoo, while on a fifth-grade field trip with my class from Mercer County Elementary School. With my Polaroid Swinger, I photographed two seals swimming in a  concrete pool. From then on, I knew reality was subjective and could be re-arranged. I was born in Danville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":2,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-592","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billydouglas.com\/bd2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}