![]() ![]() ![]() Vaughn-James had a varied career as a multimedia artist, working in forms as different as painting and novel writing-but his most important innovations came in a medium that combined pictures and words. Ballard, who was a child in a Japanese internment camp during the war, Vaughn-James acquired a taste for post-apocalyptic architecture: the depopulated and denatured concrete monuments that will survive even atomic desolation. As he said on more than one occasion, his birth in Bristol on December 5, 1943, occurred “during an air raid.” The visual landscape of his childhood, he wrote, consisted of “abandoned airfields, weed-covered bomb-sites, enigmatic bits of shell-casings, helmets, rusting away in woods and fields.” Like the slightly older J. Martin Vaughn-James was born amid the apocalypse and never recovered. ![]()
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