Insofar as it’s “A photobook about numbers stations, covert transmissions between intelligence agencies and their undercover operatives,” Lewis Bush‘s Shadows of the State is one of the more interesting photobooks in my collection. It’s a one-stop shop for information on all the current and former numbers stations—radio transmissions thought to be used by spies and counterintelligence …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Lewis Bush – ‘Shadows of the State’
working hard…
Enter the Zero Image 6×9
This is my Zero Image 6×9 Back to Nature edition pinhole camera. There might be some others like it, but this one is mine…
Lewis Bush – ‘Metropole’
Advanced, Global Capitalism has no memory, no sense of nostalgia, no concern for the patina on things, the traces of presence over generations. Nowhere is this more visible than in cities, where all the old, vacant garment factories and bakeries and tenements are long gone, replaced by glittering high rises. Metropole is Lewis Bush’s dirge …
a foggy morning
Lewis Bush ‘A City of Dust’
A City of Dust is a sort of New Topographics newspaper from Lewis Bush, that he claims is a sort of visual memory palace, compiled to aid in delivering a carefully researched speech that will never be given, “… a series of markers and fragments, guides to a greater whole which, like the past, can …
