Advanced, Global Capitalism has no memory, no sense of nostalgia, no concern for the patina on things, the traces of presence over generations. Nowhere is this more visible than in cities, where all the old, vacant garment factories and bakeries and tenements are long gone, replaced by glittering high rises. Metropole is Lewis Bush’s dirge …
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Lewis Bush ‘A City of Dust’
A City of Dust is a sort of New Topographics newspaper from Lewis Bush, that he claims is a sort of visual memory palace, compiled to aid in delivering a carefully researched speech that will never be given, “… a series of markers and fragments, guides to a greater whole which, like the past, can …
Lewis Bush – ‘A Model Continent’
Lewis Bush’s A Model Continent is a book of postcards from Mini Europe, a sort of theme park in Brussels built around 1:25 scale models of a few selected European Landmarks, built to celebrate the EU. I’m reminded of the Andy Warhol line in Basquiat “Hey, we could go to Pittsburgh! I kinda grew up …
Lewis Bush – ‘A Treatise on the Camera Obscured’
In “A Treatise on the Camera Obscured,” Lewis Bush recounts his experience of building a portable camera obscura, for use as a drawing aid. It’s an interesting story about a modern deployment of the centuries-old predecessor of every modern camera and image-recording device…
Ferrania P30 — third roll review
So. tl;dr: After three rolls of P30, I have an idea of its strengths, but don’t quite have development locked down, so I don’t really know for sure.
‘Emulsion’ – the Phoblographer’s zine
Well, it was a long time coming, long enough that I forgot it was coming, even, but it arrived, and it’s not quite what I expected, and Chris Gampat (the Phoblographer) put together a nice (maga)zine.
T J Clark – ‘Farewell to an Idea’ – UPDATE
Well, it took me 4 quick months to make it through T J Clark’s Farewell to an Idea, but I made it…
