Brassai’s LGBT and Sex-Filled ‘Paris at Night’ is Spectacular
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William Eggleston: Who’s Afraid of Magenta, Yellow and Cyan?
Eggleston brought MoMA around eight carousels of slides made around 1970 from which Szarkowski chose seventy-five for the exhibition and, of those, forty-eight for publication in the Guide.
ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 2)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography. Pt. 2
Martin Kippenberger: Peinlichkeit Kennt Keine Grenzen (Embarrassment Has No Limits)
History has been kind to Martin Kippenberger. Following his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44, the art world scrambled to retrofit Kippenberger into the Postmodernist canon.
ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 1)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography.
A Swimmer Between Two Worlds: Francesca Woodman’s Maps of Interior Space
Often blurred and seeming to blend into interiors, Woodman’s photographs evoke a haunting, haunted world wherein her own physical self appears to vanish—or emerge—before our eyes.
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty Glossy/Dangerous
Blue Poles, 2007. Enamel on metal, 60 x 72 inches Medusa was in various forms of legend alternately beautiful and hideous; a telling difference, in that it suggests either extreme is equally liable to turn a man to stone. The words Pretty/Dirty, the title of Marilyn Minter’s current exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum […]
Aaron Krach’s Suicidal Literature: The Sun Also Sets
Aaron Krach’s book, ‘The Author of This Book Committed Suicide’, is something of a meditation on the matter of suicide.
A Short Interview with Saul Leiter (2013)
“I don’t apply labels to my photographs. I’d much rather have Max Kozloff do that. He’s much better at understanding and describing what I do.”
An Interview with Bruce Jackson: American Prisoners, Death Row and Walker Evans
Cummins Prison, 1975 “Always when I went to prisons before they would say, ‘Do you want to see death row? Do you want to see the electric chair?’ I always said no. I didn’t want to see the electric chair because I figured it was just a voyeuristic trip.” By Geoff Kelly Bruce Jackson […]
A Conversation with Pieter Hugo – Xenophobia, Self-Censorship and the Commodity of ‘Blackness’
“We live in an era where artists constantly have to self censor. In my experience more often to pander to a disingenuous idea of political correctness than to conservatism.”
Massimiliano Rezza’s ‘ATEM’: The Art of Images Without Meaning
‘ATEM’ is to use photographs for what they really are, non-representational epitaphs of moments rendered in silver with little meaning.