Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures was the Charcoal photobook-of-the-month for June 2020. I preordered Girl Pictures well before its release, and so swapped it out for George Georgiou’s Americans Parade. This was probably my fourth swap, and the process couldn’t be easier: Jesse Lenz and Charcoal Books are super easy to work with. But this isn’t …
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John Cage – ‘A Mycological Foray’
A Mycological Foray was the Charcoal photobook of the month selection for July 2020, and it’s one of the more unique and niche books to come to me thanks to my long-running subscription.
Eid al Fitr 2021
For Eid al Fitr this year, I decided, perhaps in error (what’s new?) to shoot digital… Did I shoot the aged but still excellent D7000? Maybe the great old Olympus C-5050Z? No? Did I shoot the fancy new camera I acquired to up my scanning and unboxing game? lol.
Refueled #17
Following my acquisition of Jason Lee’s A Plain View, I kept an eye on Lee (and FilmPhotographic), and when news of the “OK: Jason Lee Photographs” exhibition at the Philbook Muesum, Downtown, appeared I made plans to go. I remember seeing something about a special edition Refueled magazine/exhibition guide that was scheduled to come out …
Richard Misrach – ‘on Landscape and Meaning’
Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning is the latest (as of 2021) entry into Aperture’s “The Photography Workshop Series,” and, like others in the series, it’s something like a visiting artist’s lecture at a small state college somewhere in middle America, where almost no one has heard of the person. There are wildly useful and …
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Was I even thinking?
If shooting a roll of Kodak Ektachrome in the Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim wasn’t enough, I figured it needed a buddy… after all, I’m always one to develop in 2s or 3s, and with my wariness over E6 chemicals being what it is, I figured it was a good idea to shoot an even …
David Levi Strauss – ‘Co-Illusion’
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication is David Levi Strauss‘ sort-of meditation on last months of the Obama era and the first year or so following. It’s a little bit of a strange read, perhaps worthwhile and sorta interesting, but a bit maddening too, and I really wish I had an unboxing video of …
