Category Archives: Photography

One off: Justin Thomas Leonard.

April 5, 2013

— “Pink Eye” from Zulu Time by Justin Thomas Leonard.

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One off: Daniel Shea.

April 5, 2013

From Coal Work, by Daniel Shea.

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One off: Tall Poppy Syndrome, by Amy Stein & Stacey Arezou Mehrfar

March 1, 2013

                              Miner II, Peak Gold Mines, Cobar, New South Wales, by Amy Stein & Stacey Arezou Mehrfar, from the recently released book Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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Tagg on Documentary photography

February 15, 2013

“Documentary is not documentation. While documentary practice may have traded rhetorically with the quasi-scientifc techniques of nineteenth-century documentation, it no longer functioned as a jealously guarded technical discourse produced by experts for experts. While the authority of documentary may have… Continue reading →

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Mauron on Mallarmé

February 8, 2013

“All who remember the day when first they looked into the Poems or the Divagations will testify to that curious feeling of exclusion which put them, in the face of a text written with their words (and moreover, as they could somehow… Continue reading →

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Steiner on Art

February 1, 2013

“Whatever enriches the adult imagination, whatever complicates consciousness and thus corrodes the clichés of daily reflex, is a high moral act. Art is privileged, indeed obliged, to perform this act; it is the live current which splinters and regroups the… Continue reading →

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One off: Mirka Laura Severa

February 1, 2013

From Swallow, by Mirka Laura Severa.

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Barthelme on not knowing

February 1, 2013

“What is magical about the object is that it at once invites and resists interpretation” — from “On Writing” in Not-Knowing by Donald Barthelme. Photograph by Eva Vermandel, from Splinter.

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Cavell on Photography

February 1, 2013

“To say that photographs lie implies that they might tell the truth; but the beauty of their nature is exactly to say nothing, neither to lie nor not to. Then what purpose may be served, or disguised, in attempting to… Continue reading →

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From “Hurtland” by Kevin Mertens

February 1, 2013

  From Hurtland, by Kevin Mertens.

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