January 2011
“The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions concerning it.”
—Nicholas Nixon →
I Can Never Go Home Anymore
Shangri-las
Shangri-las
I Can Never Go Home Anymore
(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six
“conveying the appearance of conveying a point of view”
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“1) prosaic cultural artifacts presented in elevated curatorial parlance
a) irony unacknowledged
2) if that fails, things burning” —
a) irony unacknowledged
2) if that fails, things burning” —
“Photographs no longer provoke a meditation upon external phenomena, but on the conditions of their own existence.”
—Lewis Baltz
“My nights are plagued and tormented by a wide variety of insects. What little sleep I get is troubled by dreams of thermonuclear war. It seems to rain every day. Finally, I return to the mainland.”
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Ross Mcelwee
Sherman’s March: A meditation on the possibility of romantic love in the south during an era of nuclear weapons proliferation
Scrod
Mente
Mente
Scrod
“The viewer of these images falls prey to a loveliness unbounded by any consideration of trade. Going through this archive more carefully, one can be enveloped in reserves of poignancy, for which the extensively modest function of the imagery and the mechanistic aspects of its overage do not prepare. In this accumulative experience, a sense is gradually built up that the explicit, mundane program of the work has been infused into an infinitely larger and more private vision that nowhere acknowledges itself.”
—Max Kozloff on Atget
“Another day, another pithy aphorism.”
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Joe Tex, These Taming Blues
Phosphorescent
Phosphorescent
Joe Tex, These Taming Blues
“It’s all about distribution.”
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“Goodbye, 2010.
Goodbye, photographs of tinted smoke.” —
Goodbye, photographs of tinted smoke.” —
“Realization: you’ll never get those days back again.
Realization: you don’t want to.” —
Realization: you don’t want to.” —
