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 …this mundane, cookie-cutter, one-giant-boring-conceptual-blur of a current contemporary photographic landscape. You have to look very hard for diamonds when sifting through rocks… but diamonds are always there. Regards, Doug Rickard (Text @ Doug Rickard, Images @ Juliana Beasley) …  By Doug Rickard American photographer Paul Schiek weaves a tale of glass, fabric, suffocation, flash bulbs and fragile human threads. The viewer’s head (and heart) are held underwater by force as a feeling of organic claustrophobia and a slight tinge of a smothering madness rush through. His method with the camera becomes unimportant, the aesthetic and the content, the vice grip on your senses are all that matter. If one tries to break d…  …enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment … HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)  …. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really… Gorilla, 1998-1999 By Young-Taek Park JeongMee Yoon’s black and white photos have our gazes wandering somewhere in-between animals and their habitats which is Zoo. The state of wandering is generally perceived as a psychological reaction to a certain kind of deficiency or absence. Different from ordinary zoos with their extravaganzas of curious people in festive moods and the cute tricks of animals, the zoo in Yoon’s photos suggests…  By Doug Rickard William Eggleston is a “Southern” artist. Without a deeper explanation, this statement itself could mean a few things. If you look at the body of his work on the whole, the majority of it (almost all) is set within the Southern environs of the US… places like Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Arkansas. Also, he was born in the “South” and still residing there. Surely, that makes him “…  … on the floor. Get out in the sun and shoot that carnival gun… gnaw on a bone and yack on your phone… get sand in your crack and strap your kid on your back… Get dirty, get loud, get NYC and and get busy! Bravo Guys. Regards, Doug Rickard http://www.otra-vista.com/coney-island/ Coney Island Photographs by Johnny Miller and Baptiste Lignel. Text by Sophie and Bruce Gilden Trans Photographic Press, , 2009. Hardbound. 72 pp., 70 four color illustrat…  …heir first venture an object of beauty and mystery, a physical thing that should be held and maneuvered. And they have brought a story of universal conditions, and of being apart and yet being very much alive. Bravo. Regards, Doug Rickard WWW.MEIER-MUELLER.COM For more of American Suburb X, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. (© Doug Rickard, 2010. All rights reserved. All images © copyright the photographer and/or publisher) …  …h-t. Drunks stumble through hallways with their ugly fat dimpled white asses ready to fall flat on their pudgy face and the prostitutes wait in the wings, ready to pull of their clothes and serve the repulsive drunk suits for dough. And the porters are close by, ready to serve all of them and clean up afterward, while rubbing their burning eyes and waiting for the endless phantom night to end. This body of work is full of the rough and raw, th…  Molly #03, 2008 58,5 x 43,7 cm LISE SARFATI French, born 1958 By Doug Rickard The room itself is quite an ordinary room. If you examine the details and remove the soft, young female from your mental focus you can feel the “oldness”. One can almost smell that scent that seems to permeate the very essence of a room that is inhabited by someone who is “older”. Not old, just “older”. Yes, it is a very average room, perhaps even “unattractive” in it…  … stars and no fear of being dead. Sssshhhhhh, don’t tell me anything about the reality, just leave me with my own story of “Emmett” and of myself, and all that is still left in my head. What a book. Regards, Doug Rickard Emmett. Photographs by Ron Jude. The Ice Plant, 2010. 80 pp., 40 color and 9 black & white illustrations, 6¾x9½”. Available through The Ice Plant, Photoeye, Artbook and Amazon. BOOKS: Ron Jude * Emmett… | ||||||||||||||
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