Author Archives: James Cockroft
Denton TX, 2017
Selections from my last roll of Konica Pro 160
Shortly after scoring a really great deal on two Bobinquick Bulk Loaders* from Garland Camera, I needed some film and remembered seeing some bulk color film at Ultrafine. A few short days later, and I was the proud owner of 100′ of perforated Konica Color Professional 160. That 100′ netted me 19 rolls, mostly used …
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4 months with the Charcoal Book Club
The Charcoal Book Club is a book-of-the-month club for photobooks. After my 1990s experiences with Record-, CD-, and Book-of-the-Month clubs, I was a bit suspicious/dubious, but still intrigued, and so I decided to give it a try…
Larry Sultan – ‘Pictures from Home’
For Pictures from Home, Larry Sultan spent much of the 1980s photographing his parents and trying to come to grips with his own transition into adulthood, “confronting my confusion about what it is to be a man in this culture” (26) and trying “to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live …
Dallas, TX 2016
Nancy Rexroth – ‘IOWA’
In Nancy Rexroth’s IOWA, Iowa is not a place, it’s a state of mind.*