Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #16 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . Just how did the book Erotic Bondage: Art of Rope come about? Basically, it was Marion’s idea. She’d been looking at my collection of books, including Tony’s Obsession, Petter Hegre’s My Wife, Ralph Gibson’s Deus Ex Machina, Lee Higgs’s … Read more
Letters From Prison: Part 10, 2018 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . One thing that always comes up when people talk to me about Marion is our age difference. When I first met her in April of 2002, she was eighteen and I was fifty-four. Some have been highly critical of me … Read more
Photography and Text by Anisha Arora, Copyright 2018 . BOOK REVIEW . JOHN SZARKOWSKI: LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS . SHOES . When talking about Lewis W. Hine, one of the photographers included in the book, the author writes that “he conceived of the medium as a means of studying and describing the social conditions around … Read more
Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018 . GEORGE KRAUSE: LUNCH WITH A LEGEND . I first met my friend and mentor, George Krause in 1975 at Photopia Gallery on South Street. The Philly based gallery was located in the same neighborhood where Man Ray was born and where Ray K. Metzker, also a … Read more
Photography and Text by Wenjia Guo, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . John Szarkowski: Looking at Photographs . When I first got this book, I was wondering why we need to look at such a “history” book to learn photography. The book I rented from Cornell University first surprised me with its date due … Read more