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Wayne Liu
May Flower
I have no strong attachment to the Garden State, despite memories spent from my grade school days. Specifically north-central Jersey: Dover train station, Jefferson Township, Weldon Road… dandelions aligning bright and yellow patches one by one, by two, and three, and on… amongst the weeds. Thunder and a storm, that’s why I’m here. It’s 2010, May
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Bernard Yenelouis
Robert Polidori, After the Flood
In conversation w/ D., about the photographing of ruins. Ruins were common subjects in the first decades of photography: there are exemplary examples of such, as daguerreotype, calotype, wet plate image, etc. As a technical consideration, the immobility of any site, it's stationary aspect, facilitated its imaging by processes which were time-intensive. & in these
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Bernard Yenelouis
Anthony Hamboussi, Newtown Creek – A Photographic Survey of New York’s Industrial Waterway
Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York?s Industrial Waterway by Anthony Hamboussi is a journey around the perimeters of the Newtown Creek in New York City, an industrial canal which separates north Brooklyn from the western perimeters of Queens, flowing westward towards the East River. It is a self-propelled project, which began with Hamboussi's
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Bernard Yenelouis
Herve Guibert, Ghost Image
Herve Guibert's L'Image fantome was published initially in 1982. The English translation, Ghost Image, by Robert Bononno, I have came out in 1996, from Sun & Moon Press, and is available currently from Green Integer Press. The book is comprised of short written pieces which were published originally in Le Monde. A posthumous volume, La
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Bernard Yenelouis
The Corinthians – A Kodachrome Slideshow
The Corinthians - A Kodachrome Slideshow, edited by Ed Jones & Timothy Prus, published by The Archive of Modern Conflict, is a collection of anonymous Kodachrome slides, dated 1947-1974. I became aware of the press through another book edited by Jones & Prus, Nein, Onkel, which is also of anonymous material, in this instance, snapshots
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Bernard Yenelouis
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Yesterday, browsing at the St. Marks Bookstore, I picked up a copy of Jean Nathan's The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright, a biography of Dare Wright, the author of The Lonely Doll, a children's book published originally in 1957 and currently in print. I had had a copy which
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Bernard Yenelouis
Larry Sultan 1946-2009
Larry Sultan's work is most familiar to me from books: Evidence, Pictures from Home, and The Valley. The work also exists as gallery prints & has been used in magazines spreads. My personal attachment is to the books & the experience such a form offers: private, on my own time. Evidence, made with Mike Mandel,
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Bernard Yenelouis
Backwards and Forwards to Now
[caption id="attachment_19" align="alignnone" width="333" caption="Anna Atkins, 1843"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_20" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Louis S. Davidson, 1940s"][/caption] In two current shows in New York, Still Life, curated by Jon Feinstein, at the Camera Club, November 5 - December 19, and Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, curated by Mia Fineman, at the Metropolitan Museum, I am