Few publishers in the history of photography have had as lengthy a track record of producing books that are now considered the medium’s landmarks as Robert Delpire, who is honored in a tribute exhibition in New York City.
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So glad to see new work from Tom Friedman! He has influenced so much of what’s happened during the years he’s been off the radar.
Tom Friedman, Untitled (wrinkled photo), 2012. A wrinkled photograph of a wrinkled piece of paper.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features trickster-cum-artist Tom Friedman, whose first New York show in six years opens this weekend at Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery. Friedman is also included in “Lifelike,” a major exhibition opening this month at the Walker Art Center. The show will travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art, MCASD and to the Blanton.
Friedman has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, the Fondazione Prada in Milan, and at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. In 2000 a mid-career survey traveled to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, the MCA Chicago, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Aspen Art Museum and to The New Museum in New York.
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Less Americains, by Mishka Hennner
This book project revises Robert Frank’s legendary “The Americans” via selective erasure; the book is presented as if intact, with proper formatting and sequencing, only with particular elements visible against the white field of the page.
It’s brilliant, and I want to know how he can get away with it.
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On April 27th, 2011, an F-5 tornado devastated my home town, Tuscaloosa. The next day, I wandered throughout my neighborhood. I came across this in the field next to my house. There they were- lasagna and lasagna dish right next to each other, completely intact and surrounded by miles of devastation. Orange dirt and faded asphalt. I don’t understand tornadoes. I don’t understand why my neighbor’s house is gone and mine is here. I don’t understand the whys and why nots of science or philosophy. I don’t understand why bones break when porcelain doesn’t.
— By henry busby (from “Open Theme”)
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want, want, want
@MagnumPhoto’s “Postcards From America” book begins shipping next week.
A “book” that exists as the embodiment of this unique, collaborative project by Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subtotzky & Ginger Strand. We put the word “book” in quotes because, as you’ll find out, “Postcards From America” isn’t your everyday photo-book, but rather a collection of items (1 Box signed by everyone, 1 Book, 5 Bumper Stickers, 1 Newspaper, 2 fold-outs, 3 Cards, 1 Poster, 5 Zines) that combine to represent the idiosyncratically American character that defines this project.”
Magnum’s Postcards From America
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Zoe Strauss is one amazing, fearless photographer. A true fountain of love and badassedness.Wish I were closer to Philly, but at least I can share some of this with my students.
So, Chuck Close is doing daguerreotypes. They would have to be big. I would like to see them, and I would like to see how he does them (are they made from negatives, or does he have an enormous daguerreotype camera?)
Laurie Anderson (top left) is interviewed in our January issue on her friendship with Andy Kaufman, the death of her dog, and what art will look like 5000 years from now. This Daguerreotype was made by Chuck Close. The others pictured are Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Kate Moss, who claims that this picture is her favorite picture of all those ever taken of her.
LAURIE ANDERSON: “I like working in live things. That’s the way I edit. I look at people’s faces, and if they’re falling asleep, I’ll take it out—not to please people, but because it has to jump across.”
This one’s for all my survey and art appreciation kids. In a better world I would have shown this in class. Love you all.
is it really that hard to put “margarine”
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