MAX KOZLOFF: “Vaguely Stealthy Creatures: Max Kozloff on the Poetics of Street Photography” (2002)

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Image @ Joel Meyerowitz “Vaguely Stealthy Creatures”: Max Kozloff on the Poetics of Street Photography By Martin Patrick, Afterimage, December 22, 2002 The critic Max Kozloff frequently reminds his readers of the inherent instability of meaning within the photographic medium. In an early essay (from 1964) he considers “the aesthetic situation in photography to be extremely fluid. Alarmingly but justifiably, anything goes.R…

MAX KOZLOFF: “Vaguely Stealthy Creatures: Max Kozloff on the Poetics of Street Photography” (2002)

MAX HAIDACHER: “Order, Harmony, Beauty, Shape, Form”

© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher© Maximilian Haidacher Maximilian Haidacher can’t stop himself. He tries to… yes, at times he tries. Occasionally he deviates from his path and he brings something living into the scene… a wolf-dog…

MAX HAIDACHER: “Order, Harmony, Beauty, Shape, Form”

MARK RICE: “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” (2005)

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Untitled, from the Los Angeles Documentary Project, Max Yavno, 1979-1980 “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” By Mark Rice CHAPTER FOUR: Bringing It All Together: The Four Surveys of Greater L.A. (Excerpt) The Los Angeles Documentary Project was one of the most ambitious of all the photography surveys supported by the NEA. In addition to including more photographers (eight) than any of the other Grea…

MARK RICE: “Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s” (2005)

MAX KOZLOFF: “Critical Reflections” (1997)

Diane Arbus, A Jewish giant home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. 1970

Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, NY, 1970, Diane Arbus By Max Kozloff, Artforum, April 1, 1997 Twenty-one years ago, after having switched my field from art criticism to writing on photography, I started to make photographs as well, and in earnest, It afforded a surprised insight into the process from “behind” a medium I had previously regarded only from the front. But there was no reason that this new intimacy …

MAX KOZLOFF: “Critical Reflections” (1997)

 
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