Roe Ethridge at Capitain Petzel – “Sacrifice Your Body” (2014)
“Untitled (Alexis Bittar)“, 2013 © the artist, Courtesy Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York & Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Roe Ethridge, Sacrifice Your Body, at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Feb 1-March 8, 2014. By Fanny Landstrom, for ASX, March 2014 Located amongst the monumental GDR architecture on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin’s district of Mitte is the East German modernist […]
Lee Friedlander: “The American Monument” (1976)
Vince Aletti describes The American Monument as “almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from Plymouth Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Lake City and treating them with the same nonchalance. The doggedness of Friedlander’s quest is at once astounding and hilarious… History stalks the landscape at every turn.” The American Monument. […]
JOE MALONEY: “ASBURY PARK & THE JERSEY SHORE, C. 1979”
Joe Maloney was a member of the stable of legendary photographers at LIGHT, the preeminent New York gallery of contemporary photography which included many notable photographers whose work in color helped revolutionize the acceptance of the medium. Maloney, along with Stephen Shore, Mitch Epstein, Carl Toth and others helped set the stage for today’s generation […]
Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman Gallery (2014)
Mountain, Anaheim, California, 2013 courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman By Lauren Weinberg for ASX, February 2014 “How should we judge what we see?” It’s a question posed to dramatic effect by a series of mostly large-scale photographs created by the iconic 59 year-old German photographer Thomas Struth, now on view […]
Daido Moriyama – “Labyrinth” (2012)
Honesty and reality are the wrong type of word to describe the work of a man with a camera. Labyrinth especially is not photography representing reality, but photography representing photography.
A Conversation with Shirin Neshat (2014)
Soliloquy Series, 1999 Shirin Neshat. A conversation. By Raphael Shammaa for ASX January 27, 2014 Raphael: Shirin, your upbringing in pre-revolutionary Iran straddled both the religious and the secular. You attended Catholic schools, your grandmother was a practicing Muslim but your father’s thinking was progressive. Did you study the Koran at home or in school […]
ASX.TV: Richard Prince – “Loud Song – DJ Trippy Headrin” (2014)
Produced by Fulton Ryder Loud Song was recorded in Venice Beach California in a house that I rented in the winter of 1985. I recorded the song on an electric keyboard. I used two cassette tape recorders. I Would play the keyboard and record what was played on the first cassette. Then I would play […]
Thomas Ruff: Aesthetic of the Pixel
Ruff has done a great deal to introduce into photographic art what we might call an ‘art of the pixel’, allowing us to contemplate at an aesthetic and philosophical level the basic condition of the electronic image. By David Campany, originally published in IANN magazine No.2, 2008 The photographic art of Thomas Ruff makes […]