Modern Day Racial Segregation and White on Black Murder: Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’
The words, “Southern Rites”, are at once a pun on the American ritual of prom… and an echo of the infamous canard, “state’s rights”.
WILLIAM GEDNEY: “BROOKLYN” (1967)
William Gedney, largely unknown in art world, outside of a few colleagues and curators, including John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus.
Technique and Girl Laid Bare: Charles Johnstone’s “The Girl In The Fifth Floor Walk Up”
Nothing looks more shot on film than Polaroid, borders visible and technique laid bare.
A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 4)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography. Pt. 4 See the entire conversation: HERE From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving Tate Modern exhibition focused on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and […]
Richard Ramirez: “Night Stalking the Iconoclastic”
Satanic Panic Part II
KEIZO KITAJIMA: “NEW YORK”
Many Japanese photographers came to New York to take photographs in the seventies and eighties, Kitajima arguably produced the best. Keizo Kitajima spent six months in New York roaming it’s gritty streets and hanging out in its clubs. He presented a vision of eighties New York, full of energy, decadence and moments of […]
Piety Disorder & Dis-engendered Flesh in Tiane Doan na Champassak’s ‘Sunless’
Sunless is Tiane Doan Na Champassak’s most elevated work yet. The publication itself is beautifully printed and plays with chromophilic metaphor of color in the red, white, and blue of the artist’s French half-nationality.
NACIO JAN BROWN: “RAG THEATER” (1969-1973)
“There is a sense in which this kind of photography involves taking something from people without giving them something in return.”
True Romance – Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles
Romance is inescapable; the L.A. river is maybe the most romantic strip of concrete in the world, the light in the window of a Todd Hido exterior is romantic, just the name “Dennis Hopper” is romantic; romance is inherent to the image. By Owen Campbell, ASX, July 2015 Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles […]
ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 3)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography. Pt. 3
Mark Ruwedel: Desert Houses
Mark Ruwedel is an artist who has been photographing American deserts and other remote locations for over 25 years. With an affinity for stark, barren landscapes that are otherwise uninhabited, Ruwedel found the desert and it soon became his primary field of inquiry. Influenced by photographers Lewis Baltz, Walker Evans and Robert Adams, Ruwedel’s […]
The Twisted Metal Death Parade of America in the 1950-60’s
Courtesy of THESE AMERICANS