JACOB HOLDT: “American Pictures: A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States”

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American Pictures: A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States

By Nils Hoernle

“The more cars (for lonesome flight rather than the cozy strolling of streets

JACOB HOLDT: “American Pictures: A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States”

JACOB HOLDT: “Misery and Love” (French)

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By Anna Solal

Jacobs Holdt a été vagabond pendant cinq ans, c’est aujourd’hui un photographe danois un peu fou et fasciné par la généalogie, prêcheur contre le racisme.

JACOB HOLDT: “Misery and Love” (French)

MARIKEN WESSELS: “Elisabeth – I Want to Eat” (2010)

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Dear Edward,

I am much better now. I am in Hospital, but I think I can go out soon, maybe. I want to see you but

MARIKEN WESSELS: “Elisabeth – I Want to Eat” (2010)

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: “Before Color” (2010)

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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

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: “Before Color” (2010)

WILLIAM KLEIN: “Minor White Review of William Klein’s ‘New York’” (1957)

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Review of William Klein’s New York, Originally published in Image Magazine, Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, September, 1957

NEW YORK by William Klein. London, Photography Magazine,

WILLIAM KLEIN: “Minor White Review of William Klein’s ‘New York’” (1957)

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: “Before Color” (2010)

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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

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: “Before Color” (2010)

JOHNNY MILLER & BAPTISTE LIGNEL: “Coney Island” (2009)

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Sometimes the combining of two items, two individuals or two styles, two colors, or two races, two nationalities or two emotions, two boys or two girls,

JOHNNY MILLER & BAPTISTE LIGNEL: “Coney Island” (2009)

RON JUDE: “Emmett” (2010)

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The “past” is like a magical beast.

At times, it makes me want to cry and a pit overwhelms my stomach, coming on like the weight of a ton

RON JUDE: “Emmett” (2010)

PAUL GRAHAM: “A Shimmer of Possibility” (2009)

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By Michael Almereyda

Arranged on a shelf, or stacked flat, the twelve slender books comprising Paul Graham’s A Shimmer of Possibility

PAUL GRAHAM: “A Shimmer of Possibility” (2009)

ASGER CARLSEN: “Wrong” (2010)

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There is an inversion taking place here in that which is Wrong.

Yes, an inversion taking place as elements and features, constructed from “normal ones”, are twisted into creatures.

ASGER CARLSEN: “Wrong” (2010)

BILL OWENS: “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness” (2005)

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By Gregory Crewdson

A family of three carefully unfolds rolls of sod onto their barren front yard transforming it into a small domestic oasis. A

BILL OWENS: “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness” (2005)

ED TEMPLETON: “Deformer” (2008)

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By Doug Rickard

The “Epic Experiment to Break Ed’s Spirit” would begin when little Ed Templeton was just a wee

ED TEMPLETON: “Deformer” (2008)

JIM JOCOY: “We’re Desperate – SF/LA 1978-1980″

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INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

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"You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it."

SCOT SOTHERN: “LOWLIFE”

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INTERVIEW: “Henri Cartier-Bresson – Famous Photographers Tell How” (1958)

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"Photography is in a way a mental process. We have to know what to, be clear, on what we want to say. Our conceptions, our, what we think of a certain situation, a certain problem. Photography is a way of writing it, of drawing, making sketches of it."

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WILLIAM KLEIN: “Anthony Lane on William Klein” (2003)

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"William Klein is an American photographer. One is tempted to say that he is the American photographer; among his coevals, only Richard Avedon can match him for stamina and range, and for a visual instinct so sure that you wonder whether both men had cameras implanted in their heads at birth."

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Walker Evans” Pt. 1 (1971)

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"I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking."

INTERVIEW: “Gil Blank with Thomas Ruff” (2004)

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"In a way I wanted to blot out any traces or information about the person in front of the camera."

HELMUT NEWTON: “Interview” (1986)

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"It’s quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo."

LARRY CLARK: “Tulsa – An Essay by Larry Clark” (1971)

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"I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 1943. When I was 16 I started shooting valo. Valo was a nasel inhaler you could buy at the drugstore for a dollar with a tremendous amount of amphetamine in it."

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TODD HIDO: “Fragmented Narratives” (2011)

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"He opens the camera’s shutter for several minutes and occasionally lights up a cigarette while the desolate isolation and deep insecurities of the single family home
leak through towards permanence on film."

TONY STAMOLIS: “Frezno” (2008)

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"Tony Stamolis‘ tour de armpit of California Fresno force is righteous-mad-style white trash migrant worker livin’ blues baby… a photographic onslaught of ugly dirty beauty… a freakin’ camera full of fugly-poppin’ pill-mushroom-love."

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Enrique Metinides” (2006)

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"We would go right inside the houses where the crime had occurred, on the street, in the factory, in a ditch, or wherever, and I would take pictures of all those dead people."

INTERVIEW: “Brassai with Tony Ray-Jones” Pt. I (1970)

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"Yes, I think education and intelligence is important, but not art. Not artistic education, because when you take a photograph you may be very influenced by what you have seen in paintings and this happened to me often."

ASX.CHANNEL: “Bettina Rheims”

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JOACHIM BROHM: “Joachim Brohm” (1993)

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"Joachim Brohm’s work demonstrates that there are other kinds of 'straight' photography in Germany besides the 'Becher School.'"