Interrogating The Notion of Documentary Truth: Stacy Kranitz – ‘As it was give(n) to me’
Stacy Kranitz ’s long-form photographic project As it was give(n) to me is a work that interrogates notions of documentary truth.
A Blind Horse: Fragments of Eschatological Significance in Curtis Hamilton’s “Tar Beach Blind”
Goin’ Grout Drinkin There was that pulsing light, the screams, the horns, the fighting words, and the women yelling for their dead and soon to be bloated children littering the streets. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 A slow pulse throbs between my temples. I stumble forward, the light in my eyes is blinding. […]
The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” Lobby Cards (1970)
Scenes from Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones‘ 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. (All rights reserved. Images @ Maysles Films.)
Cameron Jamie, Necropharmacology, and the Razorblade in the Apple
Within the event of this testimonial, we have supervised a position of conducting, in negative harmonics, a passage between the afterworld of death and our ability to master control over its parts by maintaining formal contact with the sub-committee of horror. Candy apples and razor blades Little dead are soon in graves I remember […]
ASX.TV: Brad Feuerhelm in Conversation with Richard Misrach
“In 2009 I started noticing a major militarization of the US/Mexico border and since then I have been photographing the almost 2000 miles between the Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Whatever the politics are about and they are very complicated… the migration… the tragedies… the humanitarian issues that these people go through to […]
Thomas Ruff ‘Sterne’ – Grand Design, Unknowing Darkness
It suggests that the first “thing” or structure to deploy God’s image as creator is that of an “unknowing”, a design for which, he had to create its anti-thesis. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 Sterne is something of a conjecture in the cartography of the heavens. It is perhaps an anti-empirical look into […]
Suzanne Perrottet: A Fragmentary Discourse of Bodies in Subtle and Grotesque Exertion
“Perrottet was an obsessive recorder of the physical possibilities of the human body, from its most subtle gestures to its most grotesque exertions”. By Eugenie Shinkle, ASX, May 2015 When dancer Suzanne Perrottet died in 1983, she left behind an extensive archive. Amongst the notes, letters, documents, and photographs were a number of banana […]
Dis ’ Selfie Shtick – An Exercise in Brand Promotion
A short history of the selfie would trace the transformation from tawdriness for all to kitsch, for some. By Owen Campbell, ASX, May 2015 Dis, #artselfie, is a fun book that only half-bears the scrutiny it invites. The premise, that the collection of selfies taken in art spaces points toward a new method of […]
Jacob Holdt – Not Born in the USA, A Vagabond’s Views
Jacob Holdt would hitchhike over 100,000 miles through virtually every region of the United States without much more than his thumb.
Susana Vargas and the “Red Page” Transgender Sensationalism of “Mujercitos” in Mexican Tabloid Culture
“Daddy, do you have a Cigarette for me, I think Maybe is getting late Maybe time is running out You know, I knew somebody once Rifled through his drawers I wasn’t that suspicious, but… You know these things They happen But… muñeca Do you have a towel? See those people gather round Baby, do […]
JH Engstrom Talks Photography, Transformation and Love for Paris
“I’m still in love with Paris. But then we are not in the beginning of our relationship, so I might look at it with more nuances than before.” JH Engstrom Interview, Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 JH Engstrom’s incredible body of work circumnavigates the contemporary tradition of big dumb color photographs of abstracted nothingness for […]
Katrien de Blauwer: The Slowly Cinematic Anti-Narrative; Fragmentary Discourse
Standing in front of mirrors, learning to speak alien words by watching our mouths form sounds. The same mirror that is lethal, severing the rest of her body from its mouth. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. -Alfred Hitchcock Perusing images with […]