Smiley the duo scope

Smiley The Duo-Scope

Piece description from the artist

I'm fortunate enough to live in the wonderful San Francisco Bay Area and in late February of 2020 was in The City, as we locals refer to it, for a meeting. When I was finished I realized that I could see Ocean Beach from where I was parked and because it was one of those cool, clear, crisp, days with light that only San Francisco has in the winter time, I decided to head on down to the beach to see what I could find anything interesting to photograph, even though I only had my iPhone with me. The beach was completely empty, partly because the cool winter air keeps most people away, but it was also late February of 2020 and Covid-19 virus shelter in place suggestions were starting to be mandated, and what I discovered that day was quite timely with a bit whimsical irony to it. There at the edge of the parking lot was a piece of vintage machinery called a Duo-Scope that, growing up I remember seeing at different tourist venues, and that has always intrigued me because of its anthropomorphic characteristics. And, when I turned this one's "head" around I discovered it had two big eyes and a big grin like it was happy Sheltering In Place like it always did. This gave the image a whimsical irony I hadn't expected even when not related to a pandemic.

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About Scott Lockwood

Vallejo, CA

Noted San Francisco Bay Area commercial and editorial photographer Scott Lockwood's work has been seen from time to time in publications such as California Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine and more. His award-winning fine art work has been featured in Black & White Magazine, Art Direction, Photographer's Forum, as a Nikon Photo Contest winner and has been also been included in a one-man show at the Metro Gallery in Los Angeles as well as group shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the renown Duncan Miller on-line Your-Daily-Photo Gallery, New York University Gallery and as a Grand Prize Winner in Photo-Illustration at MacWorld San Francisco.

Inspirations include the work of commercial-editorial-fine art masters Irving Penn, Albert Watson and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as the b&w work of early modernist photographers such as Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, and André Kertész. The influence of painter Wassily Kandinsky's highly formed graphic style is also evident.

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