Tag Archives: Found Photography
Interview: Andrea Stultiens & Ebifananyi
“I do not want to represent, full stop. I want to present the outcome of correspondences. And I want those outcomes of correspondences to not be final results but part of potential other correspondences.”
Kensuke Koike & Thomas Sauvin: No Cut Left to Chance
“So, when you look at these images, you have to understand the basic principal of the work, but also a sort of mythical sacred geometric ability to render form within an existing image that which has been removed with an exactitude of skill much above that which most people are able.”
Luke Stettner: The Image as Unnecessary Hierarchy
“What we cannot speak, we must pass over in a meaningless system of categorization.”
What a 1980’s Tension Memory Looks Like
@ Brad Feuerhelm “That is just the impatient me waiting for my own teeth to fall out as I doubt I will ever find the bouffant that defines me”. I stood sifting through the remnants of somebody else’s life, the precipice correlated somewhere between the footnote of commerce and an inability to understand […]
Indexing the Execrable: Stefan Ruiz’s Mexican Crime Photographs
“Here he has collected thieves and murderers, but mostly thieves. Los Ladrones. Sticky fingers”. Mexican Crime Photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz With dry and flaking fingers, the man combs over the contents of a shoe box full of rusty paperclips and tattered and some odorous pieces of paper featuring young men, so many […]
Melinda Gibson & Thomas Sauvin @ Unseen: “Lunar Caustic”
”Thomas sent across a very polite email, stating, ‘I am mostly interested in the surprising way you could digest such a body of material. I contacted you because I think your collages are truly spellbinding…’” By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, September 2015 Melinda Gibson has flown to China to collaborate with Beijing Silvermine mastermind Thomas Sauvin […]
ANONYMOUS GULF WAR: ‘WELCOME IN IRAQ’
Found images from the Gulf War showing ‘How the West was Won’. Ride ’em cowboy.
An Interview with Thomas Sauvin: On Smoker’s Ettiquette and the Right to Nitrate
With Silvermine, is your determination to collect this material purely driven by geography? Or do you have a China fetish? Thomas Sauvin occupies a strange place in photography. His output is sincere, his knowledge of classic hiphop is un-fuckwittable, and his publications are highly coveted gems in the photographic book fetish world. That, […]
ANONYMOUS IRAQ WAR
Thomas Ruff: Aesthetic of the Pixel
Ruff has done a great deal to introduce into photographic art what we might call an ‘art of the pixel’, allowing us to contemplate at an aesthetic and philosophical level the basic condition of the electronic image. By David Campany, originally published in IANN magazine No.2, 2008 The photographic art of Thomas Ruff makes […]
ASX Interviews Joachim Schmid
“There was a long struggle to establish photography as an art form and that struggle was won. The war is over, photography is acknowledged as an art form. The price the photography world paid for this victory was excluding everything that is not made by artists – ‘That’s actually not photography, that’s not art, it’s […]