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A very, very long time ago, we started this blog as a dashboard for good shit we liked, and I am really into this guy so I simply must share him with you.

Les Krims is an American conceptualist photographer who, tragically, has largely been considered a failure, but he did some fucking good stuff back in the 70s and 80s, before getting caught up in a whole load of political nonsense. Have a look at some of the pictures from his 1975 series Fictocryptokrimsographs:





Krims’ work caused a fair bit of scandal at the time too, such as his series The Incredible Case of the Stack O’ Wheat Murders (1972), which parodied forensic photography. Each picture featured a stack of pancakes and blood was simulated using chocolate syrup. Krims originally included a can of Hershey’s chocolate syrup with the original print portfolio, as well as "enough pancake mix to make one complete Stack O' Wheats". A particular anti-rape activist, Nikki Craft, was so outraged by Krims’ exhibit that she tore up a bunch of his photos and poured chocolate syrup over the remains.



Also, in 1971, a young boy was kidnapped in Memphis, Tennessee, and the kidnappers demanded Krims’ photographs currently on exhibit in Memphis be removed before the boy is returned. The pictures were taken down and the boy was released, unharmed. Holy moly.




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- M