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LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States
I am an artist currently living in Los Angeles. I specialize in photo-based work. Contact me at bbisch8005@hotmail.com

1.15.2011

From the Archive: The Bronson Caves' History In Cinema


I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, 1932


The Vampire Bat, 1933


The Vampire Bat, 1933


The Phantom Empire, 1935


Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, 1936


The Lone Ranger Rides Again, 1939


The Lone Ranger Rides Again, 1939


The Call of the Canyon, 1942


Silver River, 1948


Atom Man vs Superman, 1949


Unknown World, 1951


Unknown World, 1951


Robot Monster, 1953


Killers From Space, 1954


Killers From Space, 1954


The Day the World Ended, 1955


Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956


Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956







The Brain From Planet Arous, 1957


The Brain From Planet Arous, 1957


Teenage Caveman, 1958


Invisible Invaders, 1959


Teenagers From Outer Space, 1959


The Jayhawkers!, 1959


The Jayhawkers!, 1959


The Cape Canaveral Monsters, 1960


The Cape Canaveral Monsters, 1960


Eegah, 1962


Flaming Frontier, 1962


Invasion of the Star Creatures, 1962


Invasion of the Star Creatures, 1962


They Saved Hitler's Brain, 1963


Octaman, 1971


Octaman, 1971


Lost Horizon, 1973


Lost Horizon, 1973


Flesh Gordon, 1974


Legend of the Lone Ranger, 1981


The Wizard of Speed and Time, 1989


Roller Blade Seven, 1991


Star Trek VI, 1991


Army of Darkness, 1993


The Scorpion King, 2002


Cabin Fever, 2002


Cabin Fever, 2002

1.11.2011

A Brief Explanation of the Series Bronson Caves (2009-2010)


The Bronson Caves are located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park and are famous as a stage set to countless moition pictures and television shows. The caves are actually man made and were originally a rock quarry during the early 1900s used to lay streets for an expanding Los Angeles. A hundred years of filmmaking has occurred at the caves imaging events from explosions and gun fights to the discovery of cave paintings. Reflecting on this history, the caves are documented on various formats and film stocks over time as an unchanging landscape amidst a chaotic specter of fictional realities.

In the series of photographs titled Bronson Caves, the caves served as a stage set yet again. I performed actions for the camera with massive sheets of colored paper. Since a long-exposure photograph was produced rather than a motion picture, the papers were recorded as voluminous, glowing colors. The materiality of the rainbowed forms, emerging from the mouth of the cave, dancing about the canyon, and bubbling up from the ground, are based solely in the photographic process, and can only be experienced when viewing the final photographic prints. If a visitor to the caves were to accidently stumble upon my performance they would only see a mass of crumbled colored paper draped awkwardly over a man moving/dancing to a camera positioned on a tripod. The goal of these performances was to create sculptural, photographic objects that interacted with the history and architecture of the caves.

The colored paper used during the production of the cave photographs was transformed, weathered, stained, and torn after months of constant use. Deciding to isolate the medium, the props of the action, a studio setting with a pedestal was used to photograph the various scraps of paper. The format of these photographs mimics the traditional way of documenting art objects. However, a photographic technique similar to that explored at the caves was used, exposing the paper into a blurred mass, a pure photographic object. The final phase of the series involved setting the paper ablaze, letting the objects pass in transience but allowing them to persist in photographs.