Henrik Malmström: Retrofitting A Hamburg Nostalgia
These are real people, with real happiness in their lives, and that makes a fool of the reader for prejudging them by their surroundings.
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A Capitalist Sublime: Richard Serra
Despite Serra’s insistence on the political neutrality… it’s hard not to read the installation of four towering plates of steel in the virgin desert as a wry observation…
Michael Salerno’s “Childhood”: Wet Boys, Smiley Faces
Michael Salerno’s book “Childhood” on Infinity Land Press is a slow behemoth of articulated components of what it means to be a young boy grown older.
Maya Rochat, The Chromophagist
It is clever enough to remain completely autonomous and lacks the problematic discourse of “trying too hard”.
Collective Guilt: Amanda Knox’s Hologram of Truth
I watched it all unfold, the tears, the double-play with her boyfriend, ratting his tepid ass out just to get back home to her mother’s loving arms after slitting that poor girl’s throat because she couldn’t handle the fucking or the fucking drugs and I hate her. The extradition, lies, the privileged little muppet […]
Architectural Icons and Broken Dreams: Subotzky and Waterhouse’s Ponte City
Ponte City came to stand for urban decay and criminality, and in some of the more right-wing imaginings, as a symbol of the failure of black majority rule.
Bad Sex: Rita Lino’s ‘Entartete’
Entartete delivers solitary sex and guilt and self-revelation so fierce that sometimes it leaves you gasping. By Eugenie Shinkle, ASX, July 2015 Entartete is German for ‘degenerate’. It’s the title of Rita Lino’s latest book. Picked out in lurid Gothic script, the word greets you like the opening credits of a horror movie, leaving […]
A ‘Real Page Turner’ in this LA Fiction: Philip Brookman’s ‘Redlands’
It is a description that I would not normally associate with photography books, but Philip Brookman’s Redlands is a real page turner. By Karin Bareman, ASX, July 2015 It is a description that I would not normally associate with photography books, but Philip Brookman’s Redlands is a real page turner. Within minutes I was […]
Modern Day Racial Segregation and White on Black Murder: Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’
The words, “Southern Rites”, are at once a pun on the American ritual of prom… and an echo of the infamous canard, “state’s rights”.
Technique and Girl Laid Bare: Charles Johnstone’s “The Girl In The Fifth Floor Walk Up”
Nothing looks more shot on film than Polaroid, borders visible and technique laid bare.
True Romance – Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles
Romance is inescapable; the L.A. river is maybe the most romantic strip of concrete in the world, the light in the window of a Todd Hido exterior is romantic, just the name “Dennis Hopper” is romantic; romance is inherent to the image. By Owen Campbell, ASX, July 2015 Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles […]
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty Glossy/Dangerous
Blue Poles, 2007. Enamel on metal, 60 x 72 inches Medusa was in various forms of legend alternately beautiful and hideous; a telling difference, in that it suggests either extreme is equally liable to turn a man to stone. The words Pretty/Dirty, the title of Marilyn Minter’s current exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum […]