Photography sage/sleuth Luc Sante has published a new book, Folk Photography, collecting 122 postcards which purport to document the United States “in all its messiness, sprawl, disaster, homely comfort, hard labor, pageantry, violence, optimism, piety, ignorance, hubris, imaginative flight, orderliness, grandeur, chaos, and pastoral quiet.” The pictures come with an essay, and Sante’s essays are [...]
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Look Within at The Bloomberg Space
February 11, 2009 – 11:47 am
Portraits have been created for centuries, and for centuries their viewers have sought meaning and drawn assumptions about the subjects that gaze back at them. At ‘Within: New Photographic Portraits’ at the Bloomberg Space in London, four artists were commissioned to explore the subtle psychological power and ambiguity of portraiture. Asked first to consider ‘the [...]
“I’d Never Willingly Do You Harm” Opening
July 15, 2008 – 1:08 pm
“I’d Never Willingly Do You Harm,” a show curated by Tony Cederteg, is opening this Thursday, July 17. Included in the show are some past Dossier contributors, Ola Rindal and Carlotta Manaigo, hopefuly future contributors, such as Peter Sutherland, and yours truly. Although my pictures have been in Tony’s shows before, I have never actually [...]
Look: Curated by Tony Cederteg
July 9, 2008 – 11:16 pm
We’ve updated the Look section of our site and we’re really psyched about it. Since the site launched, our Creative Director Skye Parrott was holding down the curation of that page. However, we’ll now have a monthly featured curator. For July, Tony Cederteg of Cederteg Publishing has provided us with some new visual selections from [...]
