ROSWELL ANGIER: “A Kind of Life: Conversations in the Combat Zone” (Pt. I) (1976)
Sonny, Washington Street, 1974 (Part I of II) By Roswell Angier, Text excerpt from “‘A Kind of Life’: Conversations in the Combat Zone” (1976) “It seems like what has been done in the way of magazine articles and stuff like that”, one of the strippers at the Two O’Clock Club tells me, “has to do with the really […]
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Sannes Sannes: “Erotomaniac”
Sannes was born in Groningen in 1937 and after completing secondary school enrolled at the Academie Minerva. Photography was his passion, but the facilities to pursue this at the Academie were limited at the time. He left art school and started to earn a living from fashion photography, film and record sleeve design, but his […]
Cindy Sherman – “Robert Longo on Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #25, 1978” (2012)
MAX NATKIEL: “PARADISO STILLS” (1980-86)
As a frequent visitor to concerts at Paradiso, Amsterdam’s long-running music venue, in the early 1980s, Dutch photographer Max Natkiel encountered all manner of subcultures: punks, new-wavers, rockers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, and metal- and skinheads. Eventually he decided to bring along his camera and started making portraits of the fascinating people he found; a collection […]
Not Fade Away: The Face of German History in Michael Schmidt’s Ein-heit (2003)
Not Fade Away: The Face of German History in Michael Schmidt’s Ein-heit By Michael W. Jennings, October, 2003 Fotografieren verboten. Photography forbidden. Is this the coded message that stutters at us in a central image from the photoessay U-ni-ty (Ein-heit) by the contemporary Berlin photographer Michael Schmidt? The cropped image of a sign, perhaps a […]
DAVID FREUND: “AT THE PUMP” (1978-1982)
(All rights reserved. Images @ David Freund and Courtesy of Joseph Bellows Gallery)
Looking Back, Looking Around – The Photography of David Freund
Untitled, 1978-82 from At the Pump By Steven Skopik, Published originally in the catalog for the exhibition So Far So Good, (Mahwah: Ramapo College, 2007), pp. 1-7. Retrospectives are a lot like photographs. Both produce the illusion of order by means of a not-so-evident selectivity. The photograph’s striking descriptive fidelity appears to capture the world’s […]