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On The Road – The Post Office at Sprott, Alabama
‘Not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself.’ Wallace Stephens ‘A motion and...
View ArticleNotes from the Margin of Spoiled Identity – The Art of Diane Arbus
‘Photography both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.’ Susan Sontag The principal issue raised by the remarkable photographs of Diane Arbus seems not to be their remarkableness,...
View ArticleAngels of Desire – The Storyville Portraits of Ernest James Bellocq
‘In his own way, Bellocq consummates many love affairs. Johnny Wiggs understood this when he saw, to his amazement, that Bellocq’s prostitutes are beautiful. It is true, they are all beautiful....
View ArticleIn Photographica Deserta – The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
‘One of the reasons that the proposition ‘the desert is where God is and man is not’ does not mean much to me is that, puzzled to know what I am doing in the desert, I hope to find illumination of what...
View ArticleI Don’t Give a Rap About Gasoline Stations – The Winogrand Problem
Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much around that time, ’55 or whenever it was. And there were photographs in there, particularly...
View ArticleDeclaration of Independence – The English Photographs of Tony Ray-Jones
‘Photography for me is an exciting and personal way of reacting to and commenting upon one’s environment, and I feel that it is perhaps a great pity that more people don’t consider it as a medium of...
View ArticleOnce by the Pacific – The Seascapes of Robert Adams
‘It is worth adding, finally, a truism from the experience of many landscape photographers. One does not for long wrestle a view camera in the wind and heat and cold just to illustrate a philosophy....
View ArticleSing a Sad Song and Make it Better – The Photographs of Markèta Luskacovà
Markéta Luskacová is one of the finest exponents of one of photography’s trickiest arts – attempted by so many, achieved by so few. On the surface, what she does seems relatively simple, dependent...
View ArticleThe Labyrinth of Solitude: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo
The photographs of Manuel Alvárez Bravo speak specifically of Mexico, as the photographs of Walker Evans speak of America, and those of Bill Brandt speak specifically of England. Therefore, although...
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