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IF THE NIGHT WERE A SPIDER,
THIS IS WHAT SHE WOULD LOOK LIKE

by John Oliver Hodges


When asked for a statement about his newest photography project involving the combative properties of shades found at either end of Ansel Adams’s infamous Zone System, J.O.H. had this to say: “The mellow night’s color is more black than blue, and this grainy spider claws the air like thrown blood, rushes into corners in small suffocations and wets the shores. I think upon these night spiders, and see huge bodies of water, bodies who, for lack of brains, lick the sand as would a moron with a package of candied worms.”

From dim lit Mexican cathedrals to shuffleboard swordsmen at a Florida resort for the old, these gelatin silver prints, noted by some critics as having a “snapshot” quality, provide witness to the whispering shorelines and hotel room fringes of American normalcy. Here we are invited into the shallows, into the
dark bedrooms and shotgun shacks and the sometimes dangerous spaces found beneath bridges,
where spiders lurk.


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spider1

Night Spider 1


spider2

Night Spider 2


spider3

Night Spider 3


spider4

Night Spider 4


spider5

Night Spider 5


spider6

Night Spider 6


spider7

Night Spider 7


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Night Spider 8


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Night Spider 9


spider10

Night Spider 10


spider11

Night Spider 11


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Night Spider 12


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Night Spider 13


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Night Spider 14





John Oliver Hodges attended the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach. He was an artist in residence at Light Work, and his photographs have appeared in many periodicals, including, The Blue Jew Yorker, Kitty Snacks and Yalobusha Review. He currently lives in Flushing, NY.


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