Araki Loves Polaroids
“The time when a picture is taken is like an emotion, it’s like a sexual encounter. It’s like a fuck! So, timing is very important.”
Paris, Texas, Distance and Almost No Humans in Wim Wender’s ‘Written in the West’
There are almost no humans in Wender’s photos. I almost forget there’s a human behind the camera in a way that would never happen with other road trip photographers.
A Conversation with Andrew Bush: On the Road
“Drive, look, and photograph. That was the beauty of it—it didn’t matter where I went.”
Wolfgang Tillmans and His (Almost) All Consuming Eye
I was, part of a youth culture, a movement. And I greatly embraced this liberating music and club life, which was in such stark contrast to the posy-dressy 80s.
Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince, et al – The Appeal Verdict
Cariou sued Prince and Gagosian, alleging that Prince’s Canal Zone works and exhibition catalog infringed on Cariou’s copyrights in the incorporated ‘Yes Rasta’ photographs.
William Eggleston: Making a Name, the Southern Way
The photographer once stated dryly that the centripetal composition of all of his pictures was based on the Confederate Flag.
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 […]
Dry Bodies, Bad Dreams, Haifa Street. Found Images from the Iraq War.
“Every dried out mummy-corpse, every dead child, every snarl of these fucking dogs – it’s like they invade my dreams- I can’t get relief either awake or asleep.”