TateShots – “Bruce Davidson’s ‘Subway'” (2012)
In the 1980s the Subway in New York was poorly run, poorly lit and considered dangerous. Photographer Bruce Davidson decided to head underground to embark on what he called ‘a voyage of discovery’. In Davidson’s own words, ‘I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up […]
Jacob Aue Sobol – “Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 6 – Moscow” (2012)
This is the sixth and final episode of our “Arrivals and Departures” series with Magnum Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol after his journey photographing what he saw with his Leica M Monochrome through Moscow, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing.
Richard Billingham: “Ray’s a Laugh”
ASX CHANNEL: RICHARD BILLINGHAM (All rights reserved. Images @ Richard Billingham)
Luigi Ghirri – “Project Prints” (2012)
PJ ROUNTREE: “HOT, DAILY DEATH AND SEX” (2012)
El Grafico 28,051, November 29, 2010 Hot, Daily Death and Sex Text by Paul Loomis, ASX, May 2012 I had been living in Mexico City for only two months when I encountered artist P.J. Rountree’s collection of El Grafico covers. He collects various visual textures from the urban environment, manipulating some and archiving others as […]
Joel Meyerowitz – “Portrait” (2012)
An award-winning street photographer who has been creating memorable images in the great photojournalistic tradition since 1962, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered the use of color in this slice of life genre, and his classic book on Cape Cod, “Cape Light” was instrumental in changing the prevailing dismissive attitudes toward color photography. Within a few days […]
Photographing Resistance to the Menace and Alienation of Apartheid Transport – Santu Mofokeng’s ‘Train Churches’ (1996)
#1, From Train Church, 1986 By David Alvarez, excerpt from Alternation, 1996 I think that particularly in a country like South Africa where for centuries and particularly in the last four decades or so there has been an overt attempt to remove people’s identities or to make them something other than what they are there […]
