Art Out Review: Radical Resurrection and Portraits of Survival
On August 14th, Bronx Art Space and photojournalist Michael Kamber presented "Portraits of Survival", a mixture of photography from Michael's earlier years in the Bronx and portraits from citizens in...
View ArticleBook Review: Dust by Nadav Kander
The embers of a raging inferno, ignited by the nuclear arms race, are all that remains in the desolate region between Northwest Russia and Kazakhstan. This race became the focal point of the Cold War;...
View ArticleBook Review: Kathy Ryan’s Office Romance
Image Above: 6:36pm, July 3, 2013, from Office Romance, photographs by Kathy Ryan (Aperture, 2014) ©Kathy Ryan The ability to imagine another’s reality, to abandon oneself to a stranger’s memories...
View ArticleBook Review: ABCDuane by Duane Michals
Image above: Duane Michals, Voltaire, 2013; Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, 1980 © Duane Michals In the early twentieth century, the United States fled from the despotism that had stunted its nation....
View ArticleBook Review: Gangsters & Grifters by the Chicago Tribune
Image Above: Murphy, pg. 36: “Gertrude ‘Billie’ Murphy, 22, is brought in for questioning in the murder case of Michael Stopec, who was shot and killed in an apartment hotel, circa July 1927. Murphy...
View ArticleBook Review: Early Black and White by Saul Leiter
Image Above: Saul Leiter, Self-Portrait with Inez, c. 1947 © Early Black and White by Saul Leiter, published by Steidl www.steidl.de A nude woman is sprawled along the wrinkled sheets, her elongated...
View ArticleBook Review: Early Color by Saul Leiter
Image Above: Book Cover © Early Color by Saul Leiter, published by Steidl www.steidl.de It is quite difficult to capture a moment. Every time it settles on the impenetrable dust of time, the world...
View ArticleBook Review: Mona Kuhn’s Private
Image Above: ©Mona Kuhn “Private” The enigmatic Mojave Desert is the setting of Mona Kuhn’s latest photo book Private, published by Steidl. For 2 years Kuhn captured the prehistoric landscape and its...
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