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.
Montauk, Andy Warhol and His Fascinating Neighbor Peter Beard
I’ll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, 1965 @ Peter Beard Andy described him as – “one of the most fascinating men in the world …… he’s like a modern Tarzan. He jumps in and out of the snake pit he keeps at his home. He cuts himself and paints with the blood. […]
WATANABE KATSUMI: “GANGS OF KABUKICHO”
The subjects in Watanabe’s photographs are the prostitutes, street people, Drag Queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho at night.
Maya Rochat, The Chromophagist
It is clever enough to remain completely autonomous and lacks the problematic discourse of “trying too hard”.
Michele Tagliaferri: Grass That Came From Nothing
Michelle Tagliaferri’s “Grass” is book of natural gravity and beauty. That is to put it simply.
An Interview with Eugene Richards: ‘Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue’ (1995)
Excerpt from Popular Photography, August 1995 Q: When did you get the original assignment to photograph the drug scene? A: I made a trip to Detroit for Life in the late 1980’s to research the drug problem. It went badly. I couldn’t get anyone to help me break into the downtown Detroit scene. When I […]
Alexander Binder: Glass Delusion and the Prism of Photographic Mysticism
“It is thus, my most coveted photography book of the year in its qualification as unspeakable language and the glory of the potentially transcendental image.”
Jerry Brendt: Scene from 1960’s Boston – ‘The Combat Zone’
‘The Combat Zone’ was the name given to the roughest area in Boston at the end of the 1960s, full of violence, sexual exploitation and racial war. In 1967, Harvard University commissioned Jerry Berndt to explore this Boston of shadows and vice. Like a war reporter, the […]