Jonpaul Douglass | Communication Arts
By Claire Sykes Jonpaul Douglass’s photographs really want you to look at them. Why else would his camera make a stop sign come to a halt, lying flat on the ground, still shouting its command? And what about the eye peeking out from a hole cut in fake fur, its lower lid pulled down by a pencil eraser? Oh, and then there are the pictures of the pug. © Wes Sumner The Los Angeles–based photographer and director gives the logical and the absurd space to romp in images that narrate and free-associate, playing with the conceptual and the concrete within a palette that leaps from tart hard-cand...