EGPS 4 - Apocalypse Forever by Grant Worth
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It is with great satisfaction that I share with you my Easter Glamour Portrait experience. Have you ever gotten a present that just keeps on giving?

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For my birthday I wanted to have professional pictures taken, but how can we light up the diamonds in our own back yards?

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When we went to the portrait studio at the Fair Oaks Mall location, I had been fighting with my wife and 2 y/o daughter. You can imagine my frown made of pure electricity.

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The terror I initally experienced was unfathomable. I had been working hard on getting in the best shape ever.

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In june there are no sitting fees so we saved an extra $9 a person. I'm overcome by the feeling that I am most certainly where I want to be.

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Mother Earth herself is in trouble. She is about to have a temper tantrum. I was a little nervous too. With my photographers calm and gentle demeanor, once we started shooting, all I had to do was receive the experience graciously.

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Initially, I had gone to another local studio/kids hair salon. The so called photographer there doubled as the cashier too. Upon discovering your team, I remember realizing that I had not died at all, but that I had always been dead and was about to be born.

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Dimensions were outraged. My baby was being difficult and my photographer Mandi was amazing!

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The photographer! - Oh what a doll! The geometry of things crashed blindly into one another and crumbled into chaos. She was so good she put my impatient boyfriend at ease.

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We did the poses i suggested first and then the photographer gave us suggestions. It was bigger than me.

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The portraits Ernest took are so good, as impressive as the symphony of infinitude. Nobody believes the baby was only 20 days old.

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Most of us never get to feel like models or hear the sounds of butterfly wings burning.

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Let me say how much I love, love, LOVE my photos and wall portrait! Every time I look at the pictures I feel myself being pulled, literally at the speed of light, farther from the physical Earth.

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The fractal Medusa liquid, serpentine, sexy poses she thought of were super excellent.

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As the energy approaches me, it begins to take the shape of a Goddess of many arms. Immediately after our photo session we all had lunch together.

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Every hair, every eyelash, every hand was placed to maximize the form and consciousness of a bird, and fly as a bird does.

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Breathtakingly beautiful and awe-inspiring - I hung my portrait in my bedroom and every night before I go to bed I admire it and smile, my being overwhelmed.

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I am so happy that I have such precious memories! In the pictures he held his head up, engaging, thinking like a big kid, wearing the dust from the aurora on his cloak.

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The photographer listened to what we had to say about not wanting props and no full body shots (sprained ankle). She understood all derivations of pattern, making reasonable the irrational.

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I came in for a picture for our wedding invitations and had a very hard time choosing because swirls of light danced around me and I saw particles of matter all around exploding into multicolored fragments.

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The world runs by rhythms we can't possibly comprehend. They are very warm, friendly, informative, professional, and helpful.

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You should be very proud of your staff. I was a real handful to work with, but immediately after my photoshoot, the Aurora blazed all of the sudden into brilliant life. You just don't get that level of service anymore.

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I saw that the Earth was vibrating and pulsating, as though it was living and my makeup was perfect and everything was just fabulous!

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During my photo shoot soft mercurial waves of color enveloped me, draping me with care. Kelle brings an artist's sensibility as well as a woman's touch to the photo session. Kelle will capture you at your absolute best!

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At first I was nervous about the photographer's suggestions. I sat transfixed at this vision and thoughts flooded into my mind as the world around me slowly disappeared. In the end, one of the ones she suggested ended up being my favorite picture!!

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In a rage, the sky broke into waving, many-folded bands of shining gold, over which shot billows of glittering rays, and to top it all off, the cost was incredibly reasonable.

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During my portrait session I had no sense of objective time whatsoever. Mary quickly and efficiently set up the props and in less than fifteen minutes had captured my baby's personality. And all that time this utter stillness. An incredible balance with the world has entered me.

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Changing then to yellow, the wall was quiveringly involved with these visual architectonic dream waters that were beginning to emerge. I have never ever experienced customer service quite like this.

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All I could hear in my ears were piercing shrieks, as if thousands of nails were being wrenched from boards. Still, the staff made me look so good!

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You were so very nice and helpful. With 10-foot-thick walls of spinning clouds rotating at great speed, I was unable to focus and barely able to maintain. And thank you for helping me with my dress!

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The wind coming off the water was strong. The whole of humanity dancing naked amongst the gods and godessess of the storm. I haven't seen my pictures yet, but I know they are going to be great.

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I have had seven children over the past twelve years photographed by Easter Glamour Portrait Studio. There is a very good reason why UFO and UFO activity has spiked in recent years.

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While I waited for different orders to come in over the past 25,800 year great galactic alignment, I received excellent customer service. I will highly recommend Easter Glamour Portrait Studio to all my friends and co-workers.

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Everything was perfect from my clothes to my hair to the metallic muslin arms holding me gently as the universe was expanding and contracting.

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The lighting was awesome, studio clean, swarming hive of dragonfly constellations, good selection for back drops.

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Eddie was the photographer I referenced in our telephone conversation last week. Otherwise known as “The End of Time as We Know It,” I call him the “Baby Whisperer.”

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Everyone who comes into my apartment just raves about my wall portrait. (it's an eerie reminder of the vast grandeur of the universe.)

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Easter Glamour's state of the art mobile portrait studio met my family in East Boca Raton, thrusting open the gates that hold back the forces of chaos.

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I showed up while employees were in between shifts. The transitions between cosmic epochs are notoriously disruptive. However, the staff at Easter Glamour was prompt and amazing!

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Should you require photographic services of any type before we all return to the stars together as a species, I can't recommend Easter Glamour Portrait Studios enough.

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Throughout the storm of frequency modulations and crescendoed stacatto pops your staff was always very patient and courteous.

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I loved the convenience of having my photos uploaded to facebook so my family and friends could see immediately that I surrendered to this death and ultimately celebrated it.

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My daughter and I both have extensive experience in front of the camera and know the difference between being photographed and being “captured.” It is as though one heard the sigh of a departing spirit.

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You were so good to look ahead and realize we would have had to rush through the reception, if I had not come an hour earlier for my portrait as you suggested. As I always say, “the suicidal shortcut is a shortcut in the processes of alchemy.”

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Your staff did an excellent job and were courteous even with our crazy guests! Now they are growing again; new lightnings shoot up; and the endless game begins afresh.

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Both knowing full well the earth has failed in her duty to nurse the child of the Sun and Moon; I was impressed with the photographers professionalism, creativity, and warm comfort evoking demeanor.

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The photographer was crawling around on the ground and saying funny things to get me to smile! There was a beautiful sense of dropping away, but to say downward would be too simple.

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We feel very blessed to have met you. During our shoot we witnessed the dimensional ascension of the entire 3rd dimension of Earth into a higher dimension; it was literally the merger of heaven and earth. Thanks for all your hard work yesterday, finding parking, etc etc.

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What a difference a day in a professional studio makes! A huge jolt threw me across the floor. My hat was whipped off my head as objects around me flashed upward. My pictures turned out wonderful! I had a huge selection to pick from.

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I explained how I was looking to be photographed in a particular pose, to capture my evanescent footprint on the sand slowly being washed away by the tide. I would like to express my deepest gratitude toward your accommodating staff.

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It's so refreshing to know there are real photographers who understand my feeling of flying is not an accurate description of the sensation that accompanied my movement toward the metallic point.

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Something has stirred the hive. I can't wait to see you again when my husband and I have our family.

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I had portraits done today with my boyfriend at the Easter Glamour JC Penney in the Galleria Mall. We became one, spreading and contracting in restless change, appearing in the vastness as tiny point of light.

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I rushed upwards into the superspace that was a spun galactic ecology of stars: a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long, dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory. I had a hard time finding one pose i didn't love!

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Mary could have easily refused to help because she was on break, the whole room was melting away in pattern and sunlight, plus I didn't even have an appointment.

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When we found out my husband was going to be deployed he received the mark of the beast on his right hand and forehead. We still really wanted to get formal pictures taken.

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The convenience of the all in one package is AWESOME! I was able to pose for my portrait AND watch the clouds and sky from behind the primordial curtain

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My photo shoot was marked spiritually by introspection and self-sacrifice. The photographer let me do multiple positions so we had options and we had a wardrobe change in the middle, which she didn't mind either.

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I can't express how much I love my photos. This love shimmers in tongues of flame over the very zenith of infinity.

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I believe the stars all lined up for me that day, by the end of our shoot I had become engulfed in the light of the sun.

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It's here. It's a disaster. Let's hope it never ends. “Easter Glamour Portrait Studio 4 - Apocalypse Forever.” 

2012 is the fourth year Easter Glamour Portrait Studio has taken place. On Easter Sunday, an empty studio in Brooklyn is borrowed and a world of backdrops, costumes, and props is installed. Friends and collaborators are invited to come, play, get a makeover, and have their portrait made.

This year, a huge amount of help was received from Hunter Cressman, Kelsey Hall, Alexander Kargaltsev, Destiny Pierce, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Stina Puotinen, and David Riley. I couldn't have done the project without them. 

Easter Glamour is presented by j. morrison as part of his ongoing series “Space is the Place.” 

www.missionfantastic.com

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Grant Worth grew up in the forests of Central Wisconsin.  In 2001, he received his BFA in Photography and Imaging from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.  Grant is enthusiastic about sound and image, the ephemeral, costumes, and the trajectories of human beings.  His work has been exhibited in Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, John Connelly Presents in New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Tate Liverpool in the UK, and The New York Photo Festival in DUMBO, Brooklyn.  Recently, he has been working more with his hands and was featured in a segment on “BBC World News.”  He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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GRANT WORTH

BORN

1979, Stevens Point, WI

Lives and Works In Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2001.   New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

BFA: Photography and Imaging with honors.  Minor: Art History

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005.   true magicians, holy ghosts, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010.   Big Screen Project, curated by NADA, Eventi, New York, NY

            Public Records, the museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

            A Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream, curated by j. morrison, Brooklyn, NY

            Cheat Codes, curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Antena, Chicago, IL

             Fold Gallery at the London Art Fair, London, UK

2009.    JIGSAWMENTALLAMA, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA

             Masks of God, curated by Brenda Buck and Grant Worth, Gallery 58, Jersey City, NJ

             Manpurse IV: Assembly Line, organized by j. Morrison, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

             Last Stop For Love, curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Arlington Cultural Center, Arlington, VA 

             From Yarn to Yucca, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

     New York Photo Festival, “I am not sure I know what kind of girl I am”, curated by Jody Quon, St Ann’s    Warehouse, DUMBO,

             12 Instances, Heist Gallery, curated by Molly Surno, sponsored by Fujifilm, New York, NY

 2008.   Oddball - er, Fold Gallery, London, UK.

     Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out: Polaroid Photographs and Videos by Andy Warhol, Grant Worth, and David Horvitz,      Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, curated by Joseph Whitt, Nashville, Tennessee. 

             The Instant, Texas Fire House, Long Island City, NY.

             A new high in getting low…, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

2007.   4th Monkey Town Semiennial, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY. 

            Secret Screen, Labyrinth Press Company, curated by Steve Lafreniere, Jamestown, NY.

            a new high in getting low…, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, Germany.

            Night Vision: MOCA After Dark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

            Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands.

2006.   Underplayed: A Mixtape of Music Based Videos, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

            Lisa Kirk’s Greatest Hits, The Wayward Canon, curated by Lisa Kirk, London, UK. 

            Kamp K48, John Connelly Presents, curated by Scott Hug, New York, NY.

            Tempest, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY.

            Cabin Comforts, Secret Project Robot, curated by Savior Scraps, Brooklyn, NY.

            On ne Sais Jamais, Monkeytown, presented by Lisa Kirk, Brooklyn, NY.

            The Galleries Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium. 

            Think Twice, T.H. InSide, Milan, Italy.

2005.   Live Through This: New York 2005, Deitch Projects at DARCA, Miami, FL.

             Kamp K48, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Curated by Scott Hug, San Francisco, CA.

    Butch Queen Realness with a Twist in Pastel Colours Video Show, Tate Liverpool, Curated by Assume Vivid Astro       Focus, Liverpool, UK

    K48 Sundown Jamboree, Sundown Salon, Curated by Scott Hug, Los Angeles, CA.

2004.   Phiiliip, Divided By Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY.

            Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.

2003.   Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Curated by Scott Hug, Brooklyn, NY.

            K48 3: Teenage Rebel in Paris, Agnes B. Galerie, Curated by Scott Hug, Paris, France.

            Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras, Curated by Scott Hug, New York, NY.         

            Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY.     

2002.   K48 Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, Curated by Scott Hug, New York, NY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010.   Kevin Connolly, “Snapshot affair: the enduring power of the Polaroid,” BBC America, June 22, 2010

2009.   Chris Fitzpatrick, “Goodbye Horses,” ArtSlant, November 23, 2009

            Brian Andrews, “Jigsawmentallama,” Art Practical, November 2009

            Holland Cotter, “All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle,” The New York Times,  October 2, 2009

            Jody Quon, “I don’t really know what kind of girl I am,” NYPH 09, Powerhouse, New York

            “Guess Who’s Coming After Dinner,” Visura Magazine, May

            JOFF, “Speed Kills but Beauty Lives Forever,” Blend, May

2008.   K48 Magazine, #7: Starship Counterforce

            Avenue DVD, Avenue Dreams

2007.   Blend, The Warhol Issue, Issue #27

            K48 Magazine, #6: In Lockdown We Bite

2006.   “Grant Worth,” Capricious, #5: The Future Issue

             Think Twice, Young American Photography, TH Inside, Milan

2005.   Live Through This: NYC 2005, Deitch Projects

2004.   K48 Magazine, #5: K48 is an Animal

            Paper, April 2004

            Mogutin, Slava, “New York Attack,” Tetu, April 2004

2003.   K48 Magazine, #4: Kult 48, Fall

            McDonell - Parry, Amelia, “Hot Panty Party,” Rolling Stone, October 2 2003

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