Katy Grannan Discussing ‘Boulevard’
Photographer Katy Grannan’s “Boulevard” marked the beginning of a lengthy series of street portraits. Curator Sarah Meister talks with Grannan about these spontaneous collaborations between the photographer and strangers met on the streets of San Francisco, Hollywood, and later throughout the Central Valley.
Iris van der Zee: Violence is an Art Form
“When is an artwork finished? Are the World Trade Centers only finished when the planes sink into their steel bellies? Can we assume Babylon’s work at an end when pneumatic drill erases their façade?” We spend long hours illustrating our human form. We seek a representation of ideals and we look backwards over the canons […]
Tiane Doan Na Champassak: Tamarind Ghosts Full Text
“In any event, this numbness behind the eyes reminds me that I live and I die for next to nothing”
Gregory Halpern: “ZZYZX” This Town Could Be Anywhere
“The bucolic west is no longer a benign horizon in which to measure the imagination and fantasy of pioneer aspirations”
Allan Sekula, Against the Grain: An Interview with David Campany
“The idea of art and politics co-existing is no more or less deeply problematic than the idea of them being separate. But nobody said it was going to be a picnic.”
Improbable Parables: Considering The Prismatic and the Void in the Work of Inka & Niclas
“The wandering couple coerces themselves towards enlightenment by consulting their unease through a distorted prismatic light, and hence gives their world a credence not found in the symbolic disorder of howling winds”
Interview with Kazuyoshi Usui: Projecting Showa
“These poor cities are nevertheless radiating vivid colours, as if bolstering up daily lives with significant visual appeal. I see their desperation to live, to the point of feeling pains. I find it enormously beautiful.”
Victor Cobo Interview: There is No Darkness Without Light
“That’s because the energy from extreme situations provides drama, and drama is a photographer’s gift”