Charming Thanatological Matter into a Chance Dance: Daisuke Yokota @ Unseen
Daisuke Yokota’s Subversive Appreciation of Time.
Tag Archives: Archive Highlights
A Capitalist Sublime: Richard Serra
Despite Serra’s insistence on the political neutrality… it’s hard not to read the installation of four towering plates of steel in the virgin desert as a wry observation…
Michael Salerno’s “Childhood”: Wet Boys, Smiley Faces
Michael Salerno’s book “Childhood” on Infinity Land Press is a slow behemoth of articulated components of what it means to be a young boy grown older.
Montauk, Andy Warhol and His Fascinating Neighbor Peter Beard
I’ll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, 1965 @ Peter Beard Andy described him as – “one of the most fascinating men in the world …… he’s like a modern Tarzan. He jumps in and out of the snake pit he keeps at his home. He cuts himself and paints with the blood. […]
An Interview with Eugene Richards: ‘Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue’ (1995)
Excerpt from Popular Photography, August 1995 Q: When did you get the original assignment to photograph the drug scene? A: I made a trip to Detroit for Life in the late 1980’s to research the drug problem. It went badly. I couldn’t get anyone to help me break into the downtown Detroit scene. When I […]
Wim Wenders: A Speech for James Nachtwey
War is a huge, infernal industry, the largest one on this planet. It seems presumptuous for one man to attempt to stand in the way of this machinery. Once war has broken out, everything spirals out of control almost immediately, turning even the armies and the soldiers who fight in it into helpless onlookers, victims of their own […]
Philip-Lorca diCorcia on ‘A Storybook Life’: Circular Narratives, Dream States and Doing What You Like
“I was drawing upon things that I’ve learned and those are not necessarily intellectual things.” Dorian Devens and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, 2003 PLDC: I don’t consider myself to be an intellectual, you know, I think I’ve met enough intellectuals to know what a really smart person is… analytical I might be, but, you know, one […]
‘This Is Where I’m From’: An interview with JH Engström by Catherine Anyango
Engström looks backwards but forwards too. Tout va bien – Everything is all right.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Reflections on ‘Streetwork’ 1993-1997
The content may criticize the media or the state or the history of photography, but I would be disappointed if the work were reducible to any one of those things.
Paris, Texas, Distance and Almost No Humans in Wim Wender’s ‘Written in the West’
There are almost no humans in Wender’s photos. I almost forget there’s a human behind the camera in a way that would never happen with other road trip photographers.
A Conversation with Andrew Bush: On the Road
“Drive, look, and photograph. That was the beauty of it—it didn’t matter where I went.”
Wolfgang Tillmans and His (Almost) All Consuming Eye
I was, part of a youth culture, a movement. And I greatly embraced this liberating music and club life, which was in such stark contrast to the posy-dressy 80s.