SHUT UP TRUTH
photographs of James Holloway
by Michael Schmelling

48 pages, full color, hardcover, 10.25" x 9"
edition of 2,000

ISBN-10: 0-9701656-3-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9701656-3-3

Shut Up Truth is a document of artist Michael Schmelling’s friendship with James Holloway, a Texas native and union projectionist. The project began in 1996, when Schmelling met Holloway at a film screening while on assignment in Texas for the Associated Press. Shut Up Truth is an unflincing and intimate portrait of a single, white middle-aged man. All photographs were taken in El Paso.

Edited by Jason Fulford and Leanne Shapton.

More information and images may be found at shutuptruth.com

MICHAEL SCHMELLING lives and works in New York City. His next book, The Plan will be published by J&L in 2009. Schmelling also contributed all principle photography to The Wilco Book, published by Picturebox in 2004. His work has been displayed in galleries and museums throughout the US.


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