ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 1)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography.
A Swimmer Between Two Worlds: Francesca Woodman’s Maps of Interior Space
Often blurred and seeming to blend into interiors, Woodman’s photographs evoke a haunting, haunted world wherein her own physical self appears to vanish—or emerge—before our eyes.
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 […]
Aaron Krach’s Suicidal Literature: The Sun Also Sets
Aaron Krach’s book, ‘The Author of This Book Committed Suicide’, is something of a meditation on the matter of suicide.
A Short Interview with Saul Leiter (2013)
“I don’t apply labels to my photographs. I’d much rather have Max Kozloff do that. He’s much better at understanding and describing what I do.”
An Interview with Bruce Jackson: American Prisoners, Death Row and Walker Evans
Cummins Prison, 1975 “Always when I went to prisons before they would say, ‘Do you want to see death row? Do you want to see the electric chair?’ I always said no. I didn’t want to see the electric chair because I figured it was just a voyeuristic trip.” By Geoff Kelly Bruce Jackson […]
A Conversation with Pieter Hugo – Xenophobia, Self-Censorship and the Commodity of ‘Blackness’
“We live in an era where artists constantly have to self censor. In my experience more often to pander to a disingenuous idea of political correctness than to conservatism.”
Massimiliano Rezza’s ‘ATEM’: The Art of Images Without Meaning
‘ATEM’ is to use photographs for what they really are, non-representational epitaphs of moments rendered in silver with little meaning.