Matilde Søes Rasmussen Inspiration
When you think you have seen the model-to-photographer genre wear itself thin, along comes Matilde SøesRasmussen to challenge, deepen, and extract gold from the topic by putting together her second intriguing photobook, which deals with modelling. Søes Rasmussen ’s first book, Unprofessional, published by Disko Bay, was a grand slam that, through her point-and-shoot aesthetic, detailed […]
Daan Paans Floating Signifiers Case Studies on Image, Origin and Representation.
Daan Paan’s Floating Signifiers, published by The Eriskay Connection is a fascinating study of a type of aesthetic evolutionary morphology as evidenced through several case studies concerning image typology from trees, hinting at ecological questions through fantasy-driven tropes such as the Panta Rhei birthing figure, executed from popular culture, culled from Stephen Spielberg’s Indiana Jones […]
Christopher Anderson’s Vanity Fair Photographs are a Net Positive for the Community
I don’t think I would have put this on my radar had it not been for reading a post from a disgruntled photographer on IG this morning. This photographer complained about people posting about Vanity Fair’s use of Christopher Anderson’s much-talked-about series of photographs, which has caused outrage and divided people over how to interpret […]
Bharat Sikka Ripples in the Pond
You have to admire the rise of Bharat Sikka’s career over the last decade. I have had the opportunity to speak with him several times, both about his practice and his interest in book-making. One of the exciting things about Bharat is that he has been working for a long time, but it wasn’t until […]
Curran Hatleberg Blood Green
I do not know that much about Hatleberg’s work. I did get a copy of his last book, River’s Dream, as I had missed out on Lost Coast, his first book with eminent American publishers TBW Books. My surface reading of River’s Dream suggested a post-Soth investigation of American topography. I was reminded of Doug Dubois, Alec Soth, Kristine […]
Ruth Lauer Manenti 4 Sides of the Table
It is hard to deny the strange feeling of sharing a room with one of your loved ones who has passed on. The implicit silence is an acknowledgement of toil’s end, though at the time, the personal trauma overtakes this thought in the mind of the living. It casts small echoes. Of course, there is […]
Victor Sira Europass
Notes for a Ritual of Photography Gone Extinct Victor Sira, in his exhibition catalog/new book Europass, published by his publishing house, bookdummypress, examines a common theme in travel photography. The book is based on a series of trips the Venezuelan artist took in Europe from 2001 to 2006, which coincided with the shift from the […]
Sam Hutchinson Charred Cell
From the publisher or author or both Charred Cell is formed from a period of visual research into the clinical estrangement of domestic environments- the work eludes to a cynicism that coexists alongside enlightenment, stuck between an escapist alternative of the present, and the tension that fluctuates between trauma and awakening. Suggestions of manipulation, both physical and emotional, arise […]
Josef Albers On Squares and the Nature of Expression
@ the Estate of Josef Albers “I still like to believe that the square is a human invention. And that tickles me. So when I have a preference for it then I can only say excuse me.” – Josef Albers An interview of Josef Albers conducted 1968 June 22-July 5, by Sevim Fesci EVIM FESCI: […]
Brassai Interviews Pablo Picasso: An excerpt from ‘Conversations with Picasso’
Girl Before A Mirror by Pablo Picasso “People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It’s ridiculous!” – Picasso An excerpt from Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï Wednesday 20 October 1943 The table, only yesterday covered with dust, is completely clean. Catalogs, brochures, books, and letters have been carefully dusted and even arranged by size […]
Ed Ruscha on Wanting a Product and a Final Result
Heaven Hell @ Ed Ruscha “I have really no direction, I have no plans. I can’t write my future. I can’t write my own history. I’m most fascinated by that one idea of the things that are undone now, will be done in five years time.” – Ed Ruscha MR. RUSCHA: I think the […]
An Interview with Larry Clark: “If It’s Part of Life, It’s (Not) Pornography”
“No it’s not!” I said, “I’m going to prove to you that it’s not. I can do this and it’s not pornography!”
An Interview with John Gossage: Nothing and the Politics of Nothing (2015)
”I go to places and I have the belief that if I can photograph well, the places will educate me to things I do not know about them.”
Alex Majoli and the Creators of “Another Congo” Bare All
“(Congo) is one of the very few places in the world that has not been extensively documented.”
A Conversation with Alec Soth (2015)
On ‘Gathered Leaves’ at the Media Space, Science Museum
Despite My Intention: An Interview with John Divola
“I consider the photograph as an imprint, remnant, of an activity. The fact that the photograph exists implies a viewer located it at a specific place and time”. Brad Feuerhelm in Conversation with John Divola, October 2015 BF: I’ve been reading some of your interviews from the 80’s to present. What strikes me is the consistency […]
Araki’s Chiro, Yoko, Death and the Baring of a Soul
In Sentimental Journey and later in Winter Journey Araki documented both the intimate and the mundane from his honeymoon and his wife’s terminal battle with cancer. By blurring the boundaries between life and art Araki’s work becomes uncomfortably candid, presenting death with a reverence as shocking and graphic as any of his more erotic […]
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KEIZO KITAJIMA: “USSR 1991” (2012)
In the fall of 1990, Keizo Kitajima received a commission from Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper to visit the Soviet Union, the opportunity to spend a year documenting both people and places in what was then a monolithic entity. 15 republics, 11 time zones, and thousands of miles spanning the two—the task was daunting in […]
A View of Dorothea Lange’s Studio (1964)
Julius Born’s ‘Texan Portraits’: Cowboys, Immigrants and Animals
Photographer Julius Born took thousands of photographs of the people, land and community in Hemphill county located in the Texas panhandle. In thousands of portrait photographs taken during the first half of the twentieth century, Born forever documented Texas’ past, heritage, and humanity. In his images of cowboys and businessmen, well-composed ladies, and fidgety […]
Edward Hopper: “Survey” (1882-1967)
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and often melancholy renderings reflected his personal […]
ROMAIN SLOCOMBE: “CITY OF BROKEN DOLLS”
“MY WORK’S NOT ONLY ABOUT MY OBSESSION WITH JAPANESE WOMEN, IT’S ABOUT MEDICAL FETISHISM AND MY FASCINATION WITH ACCIDENTS” – ROMAIN SLOCOMBE, 1997 Beautiful Japanese girls are photographed in casts and bandages, victims of unknown traumas in the neon streets and hospital rooms. These are the “broken dolls” of Romain Slocombe’s Tokyo, a […]
Brassai: “Paris by Night”
Arriving in Paris in 1924, Brassaï rapidly became a shrewd observer of nocturnal Parisian life.