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Vaporous Volumes
Published June 18, 2008
Asilk thread seams together the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the tarot, feminism, and Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer whose impresario activities in the early 20th Century promoted American modernism and the careers of Charles Demuth, Charles ...
The Ghost Brought Inside the Flesh
Published May 12, 2008
I’ve seen every cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and yet when I watched his new-absolutely-last-I-promise director’s cut, I’d never felt so pierced by the importance of photographs in the movie. The Terrell Corporation manufactures ...
Oversoul
Published Feb. 27, 2008
When the painter Asher Durand first journeyed to New York as a teenager in 1817, from his rural home in Essex County, New Jersey, the city was a knockabout place of 10,000 souls — without ...
Hell-Bent Voracity Published Feb. 20, 2008
Why is it that the most intimate, mysterious performance photographs are of jazz musicians? Maybe because two things get exposed at once: the expressiveness of ... More Post a comment
Leica Spirit Published Feb. 6, 2008
During off hours while working as a clerk at the Budapest stock exchange before the outbreak of the Great War, the young André Kertész took ... More Post a comment
Indigenous Material Published Jan. 23, 2008
A Mexican woman in traditional Indian garb, loose long hair swaying, strides past stone outcroppings toward the Sonora Desert, like a pilgrim or wanderer, except ... More Comment (1)
Southland Art Published Jan. 16, 2008
In the 1950s and 1960s, several Bay Area painters — David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and others — were working to revivify traditional figurative ... More Post a comment