February 2012
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Bruce Davidson & poet Sharon Olds →
An eery coincidence of great American art about the subway, made during the early 1980s…
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“We can’t control the way people view things. All we can do is create a political...”
– Susie Linfield, in an interview on her excellent book The Cruel Radiance.
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“questions about the condition of art matter in as much as they are ways of...”
– Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon, in The Life And Death Of Images.
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“Jackie makes $12 an hour, but after taxes and other withholdings, her weekly...”
– Max Fraser “Down and Out in the New Middletowns” in Dissent magazine, Winter 2012.
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“To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to know a...”
– Georges Perec “The World” in Species of Spaces.
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“When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least...”
– Wendell Berry - “The Peace of Wild Things”
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Anthony Hernandez: "Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and... →
Sadly out of print, this is a slideshow from the truly excellent collection of large format street photographs made by Anthony Hernandez in LA from 1979 to the 1983, which were edited together into the monograph “Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and Some Automobiles”. Published by John Gossage’s Loosestrife Editions, the book is a wonderfully detailed and deeply passionate exploration...
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Mark Steinmetz and Julian Cox in conversation →
Mark Steinmetz in discussion about his work in the trilogy South Central, South East and Greater Atlanta at an exhibition of his work at the High Museum.
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Mark Steinmetz redesigns →
An excuse to go look at more Mark Steinmetz photographs: he’s just redesigned his site, and there’s more work in better sized and higher quality images…
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January 2012
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“The way I photograph is to put myself into a place where I know I can make...”
– Peter Brown, in an interview with David Pollock for Urbanautica. See also Peter Brown’s excellent essay on Robert Adams, and an engaging conversation he had with Bryan Schutmaat for Ahorn.
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“The rise of marketers has also brought on an obsession with demographics. As...”
– From an entertaining piece in GQ from Feburary 2011, by Mark Harris: “The Day the Movies Died”
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“There is something primal for us in the act of opening a book for the first time. That moment of expectation, that prospect of discovery, however dulled or wearied from experience, however professionally suppressed, is still there each time we take a new book in our hands. Like the turning of a stone, the lifting of a lid, the unwrapping of a gift, the opening of a new book is still imbued...
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WatchThis has the look of some really fine work, by photographer Alejandro Cartagena. The book “Suburbia Mexicana” is available for purchase here, and was produced with the team from Daylight. At first glance the work seems to fit squarely within the vein of photographic work that investigates the marginal homogenised environs of the dilapidated suburban space, an area of inquiry that has...
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WatchA short film putting into context this recent beautiful work by the photographer couple Ute & Werner Mahler entitled “Monalisen der Vorstädte” (“Mona Lisas of the Suburbs”).
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“What is intangible and within touching distance in a forest may be the presence...”
– John Berger ”Between Forest” in Forest, by Jitka Hanzlová [Steidl]
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WatchI can’t recall where I first saw this linked, but it’s a sensitive and brief look at Dorothea Lange’s way of working, made up in large part of interviews with her assistants and scholars. A worth way to spend 10mins.
Update: it turns out I find the original link here, at the excellent Ahorn Magazine blog. Go follow it on RSS!
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“RIP Eve Arnold. Very sad news, but what a wonderful legacy…”
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