Author Archive: Editorial @ ASX
Paula Bronstein: Ukraine’s War – Lives Frozen by Conflict
When violence broke out in Ukraine in 2014, many young people left, while the elderly stayed behind just barely surviving. After almost five years of conflict, large areas of the Donbas region, which includes a 500-km “contact line”, remain under the control of separatists amid a war that has displaced more than 1.5 million with […]
Cars and Guns and Tattooed Dudes: Gregory Halpern’s Omaha Sketchbook
“Omaha’s attitudes towards gender are somewhat unreconstructed – when it comes to masculinity, either you’re a man, or you’re not, and it would be easy enough to describe the place with a set of cartoon signifiers: cowboys and cars, guns and tattoos, high-school football and hard men in uniform.”
An Interview with Jill Freedman (2007)
Jill Freedman: An Interview (April 2007) When did you start taking photographs and what did you choose to photograph? JF: 1966. Woke up one day and wanted a camera. Borrowed a friend’s, went out into the street, shot two rolls, and knew I was a photographer. Were they photographers that have inspired you? And […]
Artist Kara Walker – ‘I’m an Unreliable Narrator’ (2019)
Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to date. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores […]
Artist Keith Haring’s Journals – ‘I’m Glad I’m Different’ (2019)
Artist Keith Haring was inspired by the graffiti, pop art and underground club culture of New York. Haring was a great collaborator and worked with like-minded artists such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. All were interested in creating art for the many. Haring designed record covers for RUN DMC and David Bowie, directed a […]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ephemera
Vintage Women’s Wrestling Snapshots
2019: A Short Guide To White People & Their Photography Books
It was the best of years…. Once again it is that time of year where I try to drum up some sort of edit from all of the incredible work the photography book world offers up. This year is difficult as I felt it has been one of the strongest years in recent memory […]
A head raised to the heavens and a foot in the mud: David O’Mara’s If you can piss …
”It was in the ambivalence of my situation between being a builder and an artist that I realised the rigidity of the class structure in British society and a certain inescapability of this categorisation.”
Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver
@ Robert Adams “I shot about 450 rolls of film, all up and down the Front Range, mostly in the Denver area, though. And the work from that sat under—I printed it all and mounted every print, but it sat under my work table for about—whatever it was—I mean, like 20-some years.” Excerpt […]
Australian Murder Victims (1910-1960)
Excerpts from the forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, Australia which contains an estimated 130,000 negatives created by the New South Wales Police between 1910 and 1960.