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The Toilets of Austin

Duchamp had one toilet; we have 17. Texas photographer MicHael Galkovsky spent a great deal of time in Austin bathrooms to bring us a series of intimate portraits.

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A note from Photographer MicHael Galkovsky: Photographically I like to think in themes, prolonged themes. Whenever I see something interesting, I want to follow it over time and place. Once I saw an interesting trash can and since then I have been capturing trash cans all over the world. Toilets became a theme sometime ago. Public bathrooms became a place of art for me.

If Duchamp could mount a commode in a museum, who says I cannot mount a whole lot of them at TMN? What you are about to see is a sequence of 17 public bathrooms photographed around Austin, Texas, during one shitty winter day.

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—Published March 6, 2003

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