Richard Bram began making street photographs in the early 1980s and was a founding member of In-Public (the part that split off to form UPPhotographers). If you’re aware of all that, then you sort of have an idea of what his pictures might look like: he knows what he’s doing and knows how to do it.
‘Short Stories’ is an exhibition catalog from his 2020 exhibition at the Mannheimer Kunstverein.
Continue reading “Richard Bram – ‘Short Stories’”Well, so much for best intentions… I started this roll of LomoChrome Purple to test the 35mm square mask about a week before the Minuta Stereo Kickstarter ended, and finished it… well, the week after the Kickstarter ended.
So apologies to Dominick, and anyone who missed the Kickstarter and that would’ve been swayed by my purple pics, but better late than never, I guess.
Continue reading “LomoChrome Purple Fun with the Minuta Stereo”Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes’ The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a classic that I heard of many times, but never really looked too hard for. I can’t say why, really, but when Alec Soth mentioned it during his “Pictures & Words #2,” I ended up jumping on it.
Continue reading “Roy DeCarava & Langston Hughes – ‘The Sweet Flypaper of Life’”The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 presents images Gordon Parks made while working on “The Atmosphere of Crime,” a 1957 photographic essay in Life magazine, and that are now in the holdings of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). I started reading the essays and looking through the images a few days before jurors in Minnesota handed down their too-rare guilty verdict. Insofar as the pictures included were made, at time of writing, 64 years ago, they seem, with the clothing and vehicles and grain, like something out of history; insofar as Parks’ photographs point to the ways police operate, largely against economically disadvantaged black and brown people, they seem prescient and timely, even if the cops have a bit of a Sheriff Andy character to them that seem quaint today, in the age of tanks and body armor and tear gas and rubber bullets, not to mention “I can’t breathe.”
Continue reading “Gordon Parks – ‘The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957’”Weeks before I wondered about the difference between iType and 600, I actually tested it, with some packs of color, shot in tandem. How I forgot about it entirely, I don’t quite know, and I’m glad I went into my recent archive…
Continue reading “Polaroid iType vs. 600… Color edition”Jenia Fridlyand‘s Entrance to Our Valley started out as a highly lauded, extremely low edition, self published marvel and a couple of years later, TIS Books reprinted it in a very fine trade edition that promptly sold out.
Quite coincidentally, I’m sure, Charcoal Book Club named Entrance to Our Valley as the photobook of the month for October, 2019, and, well, purchased only-they-know-how-many for distribution to members like me… It’s a beautiful book, filled with beautifully complex landscape photographs and fairly straightforward portraits, and once again, I’m thrilled and privileged to be a Charcoal subscriber.
Continue reading “Jenia Fridlyand – ‘Entrance to Our Valley’”David Campany’s Gasoline is a great book, and something of a masterclass in sequencing, pacing, and overall book/zinecraft. The project collects photographs of gas stations Campany acquired over several years from newspapers as they sold off their archives in the conversion to digital, and Campany makes them into a tale of the long-term disaster that is/was the American love affair with internal combustion.
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