MALCOLM BROWN  OUT OF SEQUENCE

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHEMATA
DIVERGING RAYS
LINEAR TIME


INSTITUTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer within cultural heritage
research collections 2004 - ONGOING.
THE MEMORY CORPORATION



FIRST PRODUCE A SOUND

Good advice from Robert Lawrence on the inside cover of Quick Stab Music Products Broken Pipes Exposed 5.

A seagulls tortured cry emanates from an audio speaker amplified. A controller to modify the seagulls tortured cry, altering that sound.

Interesting that Rob chose that sound. Seagulls in the city can often have a haunting mocking feel to them. It can feel as if the natural world is laughing at our despair and raising our sense of alienation.


Robert Lawrence collage work for Quick Stab tape label is deserving of wider acknowledgment.
Notable images outlined below include Broken Pipes Exposed 5 First produce a sound - A Seagulls Tortured Cry.

The faceless authority on Product Index Spring 1983. The presence of alarming power and menace. Indicative of the times these were created.

Small details are often almost invisible but scream identity when discovered like the being with sound waves for eyes on The Cancer Detectives tape.

The Collage on orange photocopy paper for product index 1982 is an extraordinary dystopian portal to the 1982 mind of Robert Lawrence.