Richard Kern is difficult to pin down. He has shot for some of the most well-known publications in contemporary culture, including GQ, Hustler, and Playboy, as well as independent magazines such as Purple and V Magazine, but it is his work for the subversive cult publication Vice with which his style is most affiliated. Kern has used Vice as [...]
Category Archives: Photography
Friends of The High Line
September 24, 2011 – 8:00 am
Photographer Joel Sternfeld gave a lecture on Wednesday night titled What the High Line Meant and Means to Me. Currently there is still a half-mile section of the structure that has not been turned into a public park, because ownership of the property is still in limbo. The organization Friends of the High Line have [...]
Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives
September 23, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]
January to August by Erik Madigan Heck
August 31, 2011 – 7:07 am
Erik Madigan Heck, the New York-based photographer who shot the cover of our soon-to-debut fall 2011 issue, is launching his first book, January to August. The book’s release will coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Ion Studio. Opening night is this Thursday, September 1, from 7pm-10pm and all are welcome. So stop [...]
In Flight
August 30, 2011 – 6:01 pm
Photographs and text by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Being in flight is one of the most unnatural, extraordinary, ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our perspective looking down at the world becomes that of a deity, and the rules of time and space are altered as we rush over the earth. In [...]
Guido Guidi: Autobiographical Italy
August 19, 2011 – 8:15 pm
Loosestrife Editions recently published A New Map of Italy: The Photographs of Guido Guidi, a collection of the Italian photographer’s work that includes the images above and below. The publisher states, “Working in marginal and decayed spaces with a (8″x10″) camera, Guidi creates dense sequences intended as meditations on the meaning of landscape, photography, and [...]
Brian Ulrich’s Copia and the Rise and Fall of American Consumerism
August 17, 2011 – 8:14 am
In this time of economic uncertainty and social upheaval, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition of photographer Brian Ulrich’s work strikes a profound chord. Ulrich’s series, entitled Copia- Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11, explores the same sort of economic, political, and cultural implications of consumerism that we as a nation and as a world are currently re-examining. [...]
Lights, Camera, Drumming
August 15, 2011 – 4:28 pm
Visual artists working in various different mediums have frequently struggled to represent the chaos and beauty of live musical performance to no avail. On August 5, the Los Angeles-based art group Scene Four debuted its attempt to do so. Entitled The Art of Drums Project, the resulting images display what drumming looks like, very literally. [...]
Capricious Goes Non-Profit
July 22, 2011 – 5:29 am
Printing is expensive. When we first started Dossier, everyone (and I do mean everyone) we spoke with suggested we make it a solely online publication so as to avoid the prohibative costs of printing. Capricious founder Sophie Morner was one of the few people who was really encouraging about printing. She told me, you figure [...]
