JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART: “Nan Goldin on Jean-Christian Bourcart” (2002)

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Nan Goldin on Jean-Christian Bourcart (2002) I first saw Jean-Christian Bourcart’s photos ten years ago in the home of my former dealer Gilles Dusein, in his little apartment on rue du Repos overlooking Père Lachaise. Gilles, whose ashes are now dispersed in the famous cemetery, had just begun to represent Jean-Christian and was extremely enthusiastic about his work. He had a large scroll-like c-print from this prostitution series, stuc…

JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART: “Nan Goldin on Jean-Christian Bourcart” (2002)

RUSSELL LEE: “F. Jack Hurley on Russell Lee” (1973)

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…ting new equipment, helping to plan exhibitions and working with the other photographers. Lee’s first marriage had dissolved at about the time that he joined the agency. In 1938 he met a young woman in New Orleans named Jean Smith. The two began working together and before long, Jean was Jean Lee. It was, and is, a good marriage. The two personalities complemented each other and the work went on. By 1941 the reality of approaching war was l…

RUSSELL LEE: “F. Jack Hurley on Russell Lee” (1973)

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

…st, most likely animals. The physicality of the visual marks it as a debased activity for Jameson, whereas reading is somehow divorced from the physical processes of perception. His position is derived from the film theory of Christian Metz and other film theorists of the 1970s, who saw the cinema as an apparatus for the dissemination of ideology, in which the spectator was reduced to a wholly passive consumer. However, Jameson goes beyond such i…

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

ASX.TV: Jean-Christian Bourcart – “Camden” (2008)

ASX.TV: Jean-Christian Bourcart – “Camden” (2008)

Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and social constraints have been abolished or weakened. Or maybe I wanted to check that it’s still possible to reach out to others, as distant and alien as they might seem. At the top of the list I found Camden, New Jersey, less than two hours from New York. There, I discovered the face of eve…

ASX.TV: Jean-Christian Bourcart – “Camden” (2008)

 
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