Dash Snow – Collage
Dash Snow’s collage-based work was characterized by his practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures.
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E.J. Bellocq: “Storyville – The Red Light District of New Orleans”
First of all, the pictures are unforgettable – photography’s ultimate standard of value. Introduction text to Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans By Susan Sontag First of all, the pictures are unforgettable – photography’s ultimate standard of value. And it’s not hard to see why the trove of glass negatives […]
Jacob Holdt: American Pictures – A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States
A country which leads the fight for freedom and democracy ‘with liberty and justice for all’ on one side and a country of bigotry, selfish greed, racism, and rampant exploitation which leads to both physical and mental oppression and poverty on the other. American Pictures: A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States […]
WALKER EVANS: “POLAROIDS OF WOMEN”
“I’ve now taken up that little SX-70 camera for fun and become very interested in it. I’m feeling wildly with it. But a year ago I would have said that color is vulgar and should never be tried under any circumstances. It’s a paradox that I’m now associated with it and in fact I intend […]
Tony Ray-Jones Interviews Brassai” Pt. I (1970)
“I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education…” – Brassai Brassai with Tony Ray-Jones, Creative Camera, April, 1970 Tony Ray-Jones: How did you start your life? Brassai: I was born in Transylvania in 1899. My father was a teacher of French literature. He lived in Paris and loved it […]
Tod Papageorge on Robert Adams: ‘The Missing Criticism – What We Bought’
from The New West @ Robert Adams This pitiless light, virtually combusting in the thin Colorado air, was, I thought, an invention born in the certain glare of the place… By Tod Papageorge In April 2000, The Yale University Art Gallery purchased the 193 prints that compose Robert Adams’s What We Bought: The New World, […]
Lisette Model: “A History of Street Photography” (2001)
Model saw her subjects as misshapen, almost beastly. By Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck, text excerpt from Bystander: A History of Street Photography, 2001 Another refugee who had to stoop to hustling, scrambling, and scraping by, and ultimately to street photography to support herself, was Lisette Model. Although she came from Vienna, Model had […]
The Misadventures of Larry Clark (1997)
Half the commercial photographers in America have ripped Clark off at one time or another. By Jim Lewis, Originally Published in Manhattan File, September – October, 1997 One afternoon earlier this year (1997), a woman called the Luhring Augustine Gallery on 24th Street from an apartment in SoHo. She understood that they represented the […]
A Conversation Between Lewis Baltz and John Gossage (2010)
“For me the word ‘photographer’ talks about the means of delivering certain kinds of information, feelings and such. If you’re consistently focused on the means of delivery, it means you’re not getting the message across very clearly.” – John Gossage Interview by Monte Packham Lewis Baltz and John Gossage depict man’s contentious impact on […]
Lise Sarfati – ‘The New Life Interview’ (2011)
Sloane #34, Oakland CA “Suddenly when I tried to speak with people they would not answer me. So there we were completely isolated in America while the US was at war.” By Robert Wiedenfeld for ASX, March 2011 Robert Wiedenfeld: Initially how did the concept develop for The New Life (La Vie Nouvelle)? […]
The Garry Winogrand Problem (1988)
Shooting inordinate amounts of film, Winogrand charted a vast, freebooting odyssey through three-and-a-half decades of American culture. Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much around that time, ’55 or whenever it was. And there were photographs in there, particularly that […]
An Interview with Malick Sidibé (2009)
“When I began to take photographs, I never imaged that my photos would travel around the world.” Interview in Madrid for the PHotoEspaña Baume & Mercier 2009 Award Since 1960, Malick Sidibé (Mali, 1936) has produced photographs in his studio, Studio Malick, located in Bamako. These images with their pure gaze document popular culture […]