William Eggleston – “Chromes Vol. 1 & 2” (2011)
Chromes. Photographs by William Eggleston. Steidl, 2011. Cat# ZE662 ISBN-13: 978-3869303116 ASX CHANNEL: WILLIAM EGGLESTON
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Gerhard Steidl – “How To Make a Book With Steidl” (2011)
A Conversation Between Lewis Baltz and John Gossage (2010)
“For me the word ‘photographer’ talks about the means of delivering certain kinds of information, feelings and such. If you’re consistently focused on the means of delivery, it means you’re not getting the message across very clearly.” – John Gossage Interview by Monte Packham Lewis Baltz and John Gossage depict man’s contentious impact on […]
William Eggleston – “Sit-In at the Fotomat” (2010)
Looking at Eggleston’s Before Color pictures, newly reborn, requires an odd energy of de-colorization. By Tim Davis For years, Tod Papageorge, the head of the Photography Department at the Yale University School of Art, would begin student critiques of color pictures with the question, “Why color?” Color was an aesthetic choice and Papageorge felt […]
WILLIAM EGGLESTON: “Before Color” (2010)
By Doug Rickard William Eggleston is a “Southern” artist. Without a deeper explanation, this statement itself could mean a few things. If you look at the body of his work on the whole, the majority of it (almost all) is set within the Southern environs of the US… places like Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and […]
Juergen Teller – “The Master II” (2010)
David Hockney smoking, Bridlington, 2008 If one is properly exposed to it and assuming that one has an “eye” for these things, Juergen Teller’s “aesthetic” becomes very recognizable. Not quite so much as to harm the effectiveness but much. Yes, in his case, this is a good thing. If pressed for a brief description, one […]