All tagged Book review
Ximena Echagüe’s book Trapped depicts the urban world amidst unforeseen times. Typically lively cities have been drastically changed by the pandemic, and they can encapsulate the feeling of this time.
Zoe Leonard: Available Light offers an insightful exploration of the influential artist’s photography and installations, delving into themes of identity, memory, and the passage of time.
Ari Marcopoulos is a self-taught photographer who was born in Amsterdam in 1957. In 1980 when he was 23, he moved to New York City and became a prominent photographer for hip-hop culture, skater culture, snowboard culture, and fashion. His recently released book, Polaroids 92-95 (CA) is one part of a two-part series documenting the skating scene during the early 1990s. One book takes place in New York and one in California, and while the New York book’s photographs were taken from a single skate park, the Brooklyn Banks, the CA version takes place in a multiple across the Californian coast.
In his latest book, Pacifico Silano repurposes imagery from vintage gay erotica to comment on the HIV/AIDS crisis and its relation to queer lives.
Fosso’s work is a series of cumulative self-confrontation and subjectivity—he immerses himself in a dialogue with the camera as well as with various social constructs of race and gender.
Deanna Templeton’s book What She Said documents female youth, in both broadly public and intimately private places, in the United States, Russia, Australia, and Europe. The title itself is a reference to “What She Said” a song, by English Rock band The Smiths, about an adolescent girl struggling with depression. It is an appropriate reference; Templeton chronicles not only these girls, but also includes photographs, diary entries, and posters advertising rock bands—The Ramones, Motörhead, and Agent Orange to name a few—whose concerts she attended in her own adolescence.
The feeling of being everywhere and nowhere simultaneously creates a sense of understanding and connection with others around the world.
perfectly symmetrical architecture and unique and atypical locations work together to create Anderson’s unique style. His films and style have created their own genre within the film world that over the years has amassed a cult-like following.
The black and white images with their soft lighting and slight grain allow us to notice the details, the reality of this lifestyle and see the previously unnoticed and unknown.