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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 …

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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 …

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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…

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.

Dateline August 21, 2017: a rare-ish, total eclipse sweeps the United States. For a few brief minutes, we focus less on our schisms and fancies, and unite under a darkening sky. Jenkins grabbed a roll of film* and went for a walk. ‘American Eclipse’ is the result.

A/fixed was a platform for bringing Japanese Photography to western audiences, and, for me, it was welcome. The first issue of their journal (A/fixed Journal vol. 1, Spring 2017), subtitled “Provoke Generation: Japanese Photography ’60’s-’70’s”, focused on what, for me, is the first thing I think of when I think of Japanese Photography, probably the first …

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