Joshua Rashaad McFadden’s Come to Selfhood, the newest book from Ceiba Editions, might open up some things for me, if I pay attention…
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Sophie Harris-Taylor – ‘MTWTFSS’
Sophie Harris-Taylor’s M T W T F S S: Chapter 1. 2010-2015, according to the cover, “is an autobiographical, fragmented, sporadic photo diary.” I was initially hoping for a bit more diary—there are scribbled snippets of what might be diary entries in the front and back, but no other text beyond page numbers, plus a list of …
unboxing Printed Web 4
Printed Web 4: Public, Private, Secret appeared alongside the Charlotte Cotton/ICP exhibition of the same name, as well as Mossless 4: Public, Private, Portrait. I wasn’t at all aware of the Printed Web project, which sounds quite interesting and I would’ve spent more time with it, but the website is an absolute pain to navigate (likely …
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘Got to Go’
they call me piggy i eatbrown sugar and whipped creamnothing fills my emptiness father says why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free?
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘THEM’
they take our landthey take our money we pay them taxesthey let our garbage rot they hammer your headthey wrap you in the flagthey dance, and shoutmessiah messiah messiah
Unboxing ‘Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone’
Nick Nostitz’s Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone (London: Westzone, 2000) is not for the squeamish. The photography catalogues the nightlife of Bangkok’s Patpong district during the mid and late 1990s. I heard stories about Bangkok back then: a wild place where you could get and do just about anything, and where you could also wind up in …
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Unboxing ‘The Film Photography Handbook’
Chris Marquardt and Monica Andrae’s The Film Photography Handbook is an English translation of 2015’s Absolut analog. The translation is good and, from what I’ve read, a bit of German-ness shines through in some of the phrasing and aphorisms. It’s written mostly for newbies and the curious digital shooter, and because it’s Chris, it’s primarily a …
