Bill Thomas (photographer)
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Bill Thomas is a Houston photographer known for photos of elaborate, humorous ways to commit suicide.
[edit] The artist in his own words
The SUICIDE series attempts to deal with the taboo social-psychological content in an ironic way, looking at suicide from both serious and humorous perspectives. The photographs consist of self-constructed and directed tableaux in which I am seen committing suicide by a variety of outrageous means. I attempt to further the believability of the scenarios through use of the hyper-real information available from the 8" x 10" format, together with their presentation as large, 32" x 42" black and white prints.
