I loved reading about French photographer Thierry Cohen’s images of the starry skies over cities like San Francisco and Tokyo minus the light pollution we’ve added to them. Nice to remember that the stars are still there, even if we can’t always see them. (More images after the jump…) And check out this link for [...]
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Swooning this morning over images from Andrew Zuckerman’s photography book Flower, showcasing his masterful minimalistic images of exotic and not so exotic blooms. He pictures are as lush as those of Robert Mapplethorpe or Georgia O’Keefe, though he arranges his shots without any of their artistic commentary, with his goal to simply get out of the [...]
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Encyclopedia of the Exquisite’s entry on Milk Baths introduces the Ziegfeld sensation Anna Held, who was famously sued by a milk farmer for the amount she owed for keeping her bath tub filled with milk. She’s one of my favorite characters in the book. So today, because I missed her a bit, I decided to [...]
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I’ve been thinking lately of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s theater series, which he first showed in 1988. They’re mysterious, ornate, forgotten, nostalgic, romantic, and maybe a bit haunted. Sugimoto described his inspiration as a conversation with himself. “Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen.” He immediately brought [...]
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Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County, Wisconsin at the turn of the 19th century, and offering a strangely intimate view of life—and …
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