Bryan Adams – “Exposed” (2013)
Lindsay Lohan By Fanny Landstrom for ASX, June 2013 The idea of creating something beautiful out of nothing has always been my raison d’être and this book is no exception. Known for his achievements in the music industry, with monster hits such as, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, and Summer of ’69, […]
Luigi Ghirri: ‘Kodachrome’ (2013)
Egmond am Zee, 1973 Despite exposure in Europe during his lifetime, Ghirri remained relatively unknown outside of Italy. More than a decade after his death in 1992, galleries throughout Europe presented his work, and Aperture published his first monograph in English. By Allie Haeusslein, Associate Director at Pier 24 Photography, June 2013 The […]
Diane Arbus: “Arbus’s Box of Ten Photographs” (2003)
A young family in Brooklyn going for a Sunday outing. Their baby in named Dawn. Their son is retarded. NYC, 1966 The ten photographs, all of people except for the one of a Christmas tree in the corner of a home in Levittown, New York, show a range of groupings, from single figures to […]
Susan Sontag: “Speech and Inteview at Wellesley College (1975)
June 8, 1972 @ Nick Ut Excerpt from a speech delivered at a Wellesley College photographic symposium on April 21, 1975. I am a writer and a filmmaker. I don’t consider myself a critic, and I am above all not a critic of photography. But it’s from that strictly independent and freelance position that I […]
Roni Horn – “Haraldsdóttir Part Two” (2011)
Roni Horn, Haraldsdóttir Part Two (2011), 10th book in the series, To Place. By Fanny Landstrom for ASX, June 2013 With titles such as Lava, Hot Pools and Verne’s Journey, each book in the series, To Place, are a separate body of material, consisting of 10 books all concerned with different aspects of the nature […]
Stephen Gill’s “Best Before End” at FOAM (2013)
Talking to Ants 2 © Stephen Gill courtesy of the artist Fanny Landstrom reviews Stephen Gill’s exhibition, Best Before End, at the Foam Museum, Amsterdam (17th May – 14th July, 2013) for ASX, May 2013 “Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of […]
An Interview with Anna Fox (2013)
From 41 Hewitt Road By Niccolò Fano for ASX, May 2013 Anna Fox (born 1961) has been taking pictures for over thirty years, documenting her surroundings and reinforcing the strong tradition of British colour photography initiated and developed by practitioners such as Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Paul Reas. Her work is often described as […]
An Interview with Koji Onaka (2013) – Drifting Free on a ‘Twin Boat’
“The suburbs don’t change at the same pace of cities. Some of the places I visited twenty years ago will look the same way today. I’m not interested in crowds, so it’s more conducive to my working habits to be in the suburbs.” Vladimir Gintoff interviews Koji Onaka for ASX. May 2013, at […]