Luke Stettner: The Image as Unnecessary Hierarchy
“What we cannot speak, we must pass over in a meaningless system of categorization.”
Category Archives: Found Photography
Indexing the Execrable: Stefan Ruiz’s Mexican Crime Photographs
“Here he has collected thieves and murderers, but mostly thieves. Los Ladrones. Sticky fingers”. Mexican Crime Photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz With dry and flaking fingers, the man combs over the contents of a shoe box full of rusty paperclips and tattered and some odorous pieces of paper featuring young men, so many […]
AMERICAN MUG SHOTS
The Twisted Metal Death Parade of America in the 1950-60’s
Courtesy of THESE AMERICANS
Suzanne Perrottet: A Fragmentary Discourse of Bodies in Subtle and Grotesque Exertion
“Perrottet was an obsessive recorder of the physical possibilities of the human body, from its most subtle gestures to its most grotesque exertions”. By Eugenie Shinkle, ASX, May 2015 When dancer Suzanne Perrottet died in 1983, she left behind an extensive archive. Amongst the notes, letters, documents, and photographs were a number of banana […]
LARRY SULTAN & MIKE MANDEL: “EVIDENCE”
From 1975-1977, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel selected photographs from a multitude of images that previously existed solely within the boundaries of the industrial, scientific, governmental and other institutional sources from which they were mined. The project, “Evidence”, was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was one of […]
Millions and Millions of Chinese Negatives: Thomas Sauvin’s ‘Silvermine’ (2013)
“In the beginning, I thought it would be a one-time thing. He sold me a huge bag. But every one or two months he was calling me again and for four years I kept collecting all of them. Now the archive is more than half a million negatives. So that’s how it all started.” […]