An Uncommon Interview with Stephen Shore (2007)
Stephen Shore is a prominent photographer and photographic educator. A pioneer in the field of color photography, Shore has published numerous books of photography, included his seminal book, Uncommon Places, published in 1982 (reissued in 2004).
Robert Adams -“Summer Nights Walking” (2009)
By Doug Rickard, ASX, April 2010 As the summer night falls and the crickets chirp, the sky slightly aglow from the street lamps, the stillness comes. And the stillness of the summer dark lays over the land like a warm blanket surrounding a child and it becomes a paradox. The blanket gives the impression of […]
Rosalind Solomon Prefers Strangers, Difficult Places and Drawing from Within (2003)
“I used to feel that I should not discuss my experiences. I wanted the pictures to be judged as images only…” Steven Watson Interviews Rosalind Solomon RS: I used to feel that I should not discuss my experiences. I wanted the pictures to be judged as images only, but now I feel that it […]
The Practice of Not Forgetting – Milton Rogovin in Buffalo’s Lower West Side
Rogovin photographed what he calls “the forgotten ones” in storefront churches, the neighborhoods of the Lower West Side and Buffalo’s East Side, and in former steel mills of Lackawanna and Buffalo. Excerpt from The Forgotten Ones It is like a movie set without actors. This Saturday morning in April 2008, Main Street in […]
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition (2000)
By Shawn Michelle Smith, African American Review, Winter, 2000 In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes.” Double-consciousness” as the “sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others” (8), and thereby situates a visual model of subjectivity at the center of what he calls “the strange meaning […]
Arctic Incursion – Jacob Aue Sobol’s ‘Sabine’
(Arctic Incursion – About Greenland in the viewfinder and the ability of documentary photography to renew itself, especially in light of Jacob Aue Sobol’s Sabine – Brought to you by ASX and Jacob Aue Sobol) By Finn Thrane Traveling in Greenland can be a humbling experience. At least, that is the impression from reading the […]
Miroslav Tichý – Tarzan Retired
In the 1960s he began to neglect his appearance. He didn’t cut his hair or trim his beard and he wore a ragged black suit. Miroslav Tichý: Tarzan Retired By Roman Buxbaum “O làsce šeptal tichý mech” (Of love murmured the quiet moss) Karel Hynek Màcha, Màj (1836) When I was a little boy, […]
ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Between the Two” (2006)
Between the Two. Photographs by Todd Hido. Nazraeli Press, 2006. Cat# TR234 ISBN-10: 1590051769