Ron Jude’s Nausea: The Scissors and the Cockroach
“I think something is amiss or awry with every photograph. What I’ve consistently tried to do is exploit those disjointed qualities and bring them to the surface”
Tag Archives: Mack Books
Martin Kollar: The Post-Soviet Cinematic Detail
“As we ponder the future fugue states of Europe, the diplomatic inadequacy of the New West and Russia, questions arise”
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.”
Takashi Homma: Polis and the God EYE Goodbye
“Takashi Homma is indebted to Robert Frank. This much is clear. He is as sick of goodbyes as are the best of the Swiss and as are the best of photographers”
Shelter Island: A Conversation With Roe Ethridge
“I’d say there is a duality that is keeping things unresolved. The narrative isn’t faux, it’s mine and not mine”
Sofia Borges: The Indignity of Classifying Marks
“There is a whole history of photography fronted by Rosalind Wolf Purcell, Akin and Ludwig, and a few others called “Formaldehyde photography”.
Nigel Shafran: Dark Rooms
‘A compilation of five interconnected projects, Dark Rooms moves in cycles: birth and death, acquiring and discarding, the banality of routine.’
Roe Ethridge in Conversation with Kevin Moore
BFA Photography and Video and DEAR DAVE, magazine present artist Roe Ethridge discussing his recently published book Shelter Island (Mack Books) with Kevin Moore. The monograph features photographs from a summer vacation Ethridge took with his family to Long Island, where they rented an all-American kit house and discovered the relics of the previous owners. […]