John Waters, born in 1946 in Baltimore, where he lives and works.
Described by William Burroughs as the "pope of trash", in recent years the cult film director John Waters has extended his activities as director and writer into the realm of photography producing a series of arresting works utilizing the format of the cinema storyboard. In his re-editing, mixing, and re-titling of preexisting cinematic images he explores themes similar to that of his films: pornography, censorship, Catholicism, Hollywood and the banal horrors of everyday life. Waters' artworks are especially relevant today, given the increasingly close relationship between art and cinema. In a moment in which many artists are trying their hand at directing, Waters, as usual, goes against the current.
His works have been shown in important art spaces in Europe and the United States.
His films include: Eat Your Make Up (1968), Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Hairspray (1988), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), Cecil B. Demented (2000), A Dirty Shame (2004).
Described by William Burroughs as the "pope of trash", in recent years the cult film director John Waters has extended his activities as director and writer into the realm of photography producing a series of arresting works utilizing the format of the cinema storyboard. In his re-editing, mixing, and re-titling of preexisting cinematic images he explores themes similar to that of his films: pornography, censorship, Catholicism, Hollywood and the banal horrors of everyday life. Waters' artworks are especially relevant today, given the increasingly close relationship between art and cinema. In a moment in which many artists are trying their hand at directing, Waters, as usual, goes against the current.
His works have been shown in important art spaces in Europe and the United States.
His films include: Eat Your Make Up (1968), Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Hairspray (1988), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), Cecil B. Demented (2000), A Dirty Shame (2004).
