Arrested

by Jon B Barry, Simian Doucet (Editor)

Overview

Story:
Arrested starts as Jon meets with two friends at Louie’s Cafe and is showing them some of his portfolio work – nude photos he was shooting for website clients. Little did he know at the time what trouble could arise from this innocent meeting. But right then he was arrested for committing no crime, with serious repercussions to follow.

Reflections:
One would imagine if we were arrested and the charges were later thrown out that would be the end of it. It is alarming to discover how such an incident can follow us through the years, especially when the arrest was literally bogus. It is even more disturbing to experience the financial disaster that follows.
Arrested, Realizations - Episode 1 -the first part of the series follows Jon B Barry’s life in early 2003 and continues through 2009 within the next three episodes, Changing, Utila and Sour Grapes, as he realizes his photography business has rapidly died. Jon’s work spans; travel, wildlife, lifestyle, street photography, fashion, and artistic nude. His innumerable stories are based on the lives and influences of those people who he has met along the way and are painted through his words and photographs.

Episode 1
Arrested follows Jon to the point where he realizes he needs to make a complete life change. As we first meet him, he is still making a good living as a professional photographer. Like for so many others, rapid change in technology by 2009 has left Jon with a business where he can no longer earn a decent living, nor gain much satisfaction. Though the realization is there, we are left with the question “what next?” hanging in the air, as Jon struggles to find a new direction in life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149160563
Publisher:	Jon B Barry
Publication date:	03/06/2014
Series:	An Eli Marks Mystery , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

My background in art has been quite varied over the last 50 or more years. When I was very young, I wanted to be a naturalist, much like John J. Audubon, who was my hero when I was growing up. Drawing animals and coloring them in was one of the things I liked doing more than anything in the world. Later, as I got into high school, my interest shifted to… drawing pictures of naked women.
My uncle, Bubby Huye (my mother’s brother) was a commercial artist in Baton Rouge, and I wanted to be just like him. I simply did not have the ability to draw as well as Bubby did. So, I cheated.

Back then, there were few pictures of nude women around—generally, only in art books and in the form of paintings.

Just like so many other young boys, I discovered National Geographic, and learned how naked women looked. The females depicted were always natives of some far away country. Back then, National Geographic was also a magazine where a great number of nudes were drawn. The fact was, having access to photos of nude women was difficult. I am sure other boys looked and learned through Playboy Magazine or Esquire Magazine. I did not.

Catalog magazines such as Spiegel controlled a great deal of the lingerie market. I would tear out the photos of the nearly nude beautiful women and put that printed page onto one of the little glass tables that my mother had. I would set a lamp underneath it and use it like a light table.
I then traced images of the women, leaving the lingerie out of my drawings. I never thought any of it was wrong until my grandmother caught me at it. Even back then nudity was thought of as bad, and she caused me to go underground. I later learned that my uncle used to do much the same thing when he was my age, but Bubby had the distinct advantage of being able to draw much better than I could. He did not need the tracing table.

Over the years, I learned I would never be an artist with an ability to draw well. Drawing is a discipline and it can be learned, but what cannot be learned is how to see something and take that something from one’s head, from memory, and convey it as an accurate drawing onto a piece of paper. Drawing was never going to be one of my assets. I took to photography to overcome this shortcoming, and to be able to accomplish the fantasies that were filling up my head.