Research- John Goto

John Goto.

John Goto (b. 1949, Stockport, England), a British artist best known for his photo-digital artworks, notably coming to wider attention with the "High Summer" section of his Ukadia series of pictures. Goto has worked with historical, social and political subjects throughout his career.
In the late 1960s John Goto studied Fine Art at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, where an interest in the narrative forms of European cinema and literature led him to the medium of photography.

‘Dreams of Jelly Roll’

Work in progress on a series of pictures
by John Goto.

Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton was first and foremost a great musician and composer. A good starting point for the new listener is his 1926 masterpieces recorded with the Red Hot Peppers, with whom he remained until 1930. Then maybe listen to the earlier solo recordings and piano rolls, before turning to his late solo sessions, the tracks made with Sidney Bechet, and finally his Hot Six and Hot Seven recordings. Jelly Roll was ‘the true connecting link between ragtime and jazz’ (Blesh R and Janis H, 1950) or as Morton put it ‘... I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonics that was strange to all the world but me’
(Reich H & Gaines W, 2003).

"Pictures about a musician, as presented here, might seem paradoxical as the images remain forever silent. And yet music has been a recurring theme in the history of western narrative painting. As well as the symbolic and allegorical meanings to be found in musical pictures, within each viewer resonates a world of imagined sounds, evo
king the musicality of silence."

Women of the Family
Morton’s family was Creole, and is seen here in front of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. From left to right – Edward Joseph Lamothe (father); Jelly Roll Morton; Louise Hermance Monette (mother); Frances (Mimi) Mouton (sister); Laura Hunter (aka Eulalie Hécaud, godmother and voodoo priestess); and Laura Péché (grandmother).

BridegroomAt the alter of St Louis Cathedral in New Orleans a group of eminent ragtime pianists and composers make up the wedding party.
From left to right are - James Scott; Arthur Marshall; Joseph Lamb; Artie Matthews; Tom Turpin; and Louis Chauvin. In the bishop’s vestments is Scott Joplin and dressed in the groom’s attire, Tony Jackson. On the far right in the bridal gown is Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton.

The final series, entitled Dreams of Jelly Roll, will consist of between ten and twelve pictures. It will first be exhibited at the Freud Museum, London, in 2012. It is hoped that the viewer may occasionally return to see progress over the coming year or so.

I enjoyed reading about John Goto and his exceptional cv and was suprised to learn that he is a Lecturer at Derby, I like his work because although it does seem very fake and unrealistic it gets me thinking and wondering why?? It also reminds me of cartoon animation works.
John Goto is the past present and future and his work is ongoing.