Letters From Prison: Part 4, 2018 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . Let me talk a bit about what happened to me, particularly because something similar could happen to almost anyone in today’s America. The year was 2003 and I was at the top of my game. In 2001 I had … 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
Montage and Text by Mu Qiao, Copyright 2018 . Book Reviews . Jerry Uelsmann’s “Poets House” and John Szarkowski’s “Looking at Photographs” . After reading JERRY UELSMANN’s “Poet’s House”, which is in the book of “LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS”, I am quickly drawn into the idea of synthesized photographs. I really appreciate the point that … Read more
Photography and Text by Grant Wei, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . John Szarkowski: Looking at Photographs . AN ACCURATE PAINTING . Photos as emulations of paintings, creating some sort of misplaced hierarchy between paintings and photographs. Photographs, allegedly, were recreational, while paintings were considered to be fine art. At least, in the first … Read more