A mix of styles and varied tropes of photographic storytelling are paced throughout Jon Horvath’s first mass published/distributed book, This Is Bliss. Horvath crafts a story constructed from one-part archivist, one-part curator, one-part Beat poet, with a dash of independent filmmaker thrown in for good measure. Horvath draws strength from a variety of styles without
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A notebook is a set of sheets of paper to write on. Everyone has had one. First to scribble, then to write. Lessons, assignments, notes. Then adolescence and moods. The inner pains that grow with growth. The notebook that becomes a diary. Voksevaerk, literally “growing pains”, is the new work by Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen.
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  “This book is a refuge as it shows how photographs have been consumed and shared by family members, churches, libraries, archives, and photographers. In viewing this book, we see interwoven stories about self-fashioning, representation, beauty, politics, and community memorialized through the camera. The photographs presented here create some of the most compelling visual responses to racialized images that
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I was born in the middle of the largest Italian plain but I have always been attracted by the sea. The sea, with its perpetual motion, is able to cancel time. The sea is essential as a horizontal line that divides the sky from the water. The sea can drown you or, if you are
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Without knowing it, I’d been exposed to Petersen’s work in the late 1980s when one of his images was chosen for the cover of Tom Wait’s album, Rain Dogs. The album has been described as being about “the urban dispossessed” of New York City, so this perfectly sets the stage for the type of scenes
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Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole is a visual exploration of the artist’s personal and cultural identity, as well as a reflection on the relationship between photography and memory. Along with his photographs is an essay, which addresses hunger, fasting, mourning, slavery, intimacy, painting, poetry and the history of photography. I admit that
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In his second monograph, Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun guides viewers on a meandering meditation through Southeastern Ohio by depicting the vernacular post-industrial landscape. In their quiet formality, the images call to mind past dreams, and prompt us to look beyond what can be seen on the surface. Facun’s work explores some of the remaining signs
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