{"id":6308,"date":"2015-06-12T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=6308"},"modified":"2015-06-12T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:38:19","slug":"author-michael-perry-reflects-on-his-friendship-with-two-wisconsin-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=6308","title":{"rendered":"Author Michael Perry reflects on his friendship with two Wisconsin photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a postlude to the recent Culture Currents<\/em> review of There’s a Place: Photographs by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann<\/em>, the marvelous retrospective of the Wisconsin-based photography couple’s work, which recently closed at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.<\/p>\n

The newspaper piece linked to below\u00a0was written for Roughneck Grace, <\/em>a column\u00a0<\/em>in The Wisconsin State Journal<\/em> by noted Wisconsin author, humorist, musician and intermittent pig farmer Michael Perry, best known for his funny and perceptive books Population 485;<\/em>\u00a0Truck: A Love Story;<\/em> and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting. \u00a0<\/em>He’s also\u00a0the leader of Michael Perry and the Long Beds, a quite respectable a roots music group, whose last recording was Tiny Pilot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yep, Perry — pictured here with his amigos — is perfect material for Shimon and Lindemann, though this photo, courtesy of Perry, may or may not be by them.<\/p>\n

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“Self-portrait in the Garden at Dusk, Whitelaw, WI,” 1998, Palladium Print, by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his column, Perry reflects on the gratitude he feels in his experience of his friendship with John Shimon and Julie Lindemann. I met the couple some years ago while they mounted a photo show, and they struck me as affable, interesting, vital and wholly dedicated to their life, their art and its unusual photographic standards and modus operandi.<\/p>\n

Lindemann, as readers may know, suffers from a terminal cancer.<\/p>\n

Here is Perry’s column, “Gratitude sometimes paid in tears”:http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/columnists\/michael-perry\/michael-perry-gratitude-sometimes-is-paid-in-tears\/article_2ed7bb34-a66e-5e7c-a27e-3634ea506b73.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to my Madison friends Ann and Richard Meyer for alerting me to Perry’s column, which arrived as a clipping in snail-mail today.<\/p>\n

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