Tag Archives: France
On Life, Death, God and Working Very Little – In Conversation with Christian Boltanski (2015)
“To be spiritual is to look for the key. So yes. My art is only questions. If you want to call it spiritual, it is spiritual.” – Christian Boltanski
Ed van der Elsken – “Love on the Left Bank” (1954)
Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken relocated to Paris in 1950. There he found a bohemian group and began closely following and photographing their everyday movements, intertwining fiction and reality in a new genre of photography book. The book focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at the time when the area was […]
Brassai’s LGBT and Sex-Filled ‘Paris at Night’ is Spectacular
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William Klein’s Tokyo Pop
William Klein was invited to Tokyo in 1961, where he shot for three months and made more than 1,000 pictures.
ASX.TV: Brad Feuerhelm in Conversation with Richard Misrach
“In 2009 I started noticing a major militarization of the US/Mexico border and since then I have been photographing the almost 2000 miles between the Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Whatever the politics are about and they are very complicated… the migration… the tragedies… the humanitarian issues that these people go through to […]
JH Engstrom Talks Photography, Transformation and Love for Paris
“I’m still in love with Paris. But then we are not in the beginning of our relationship, so I might look at it with more nuances than before.” JH Engstrom Interview, Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 JH Engstrom’s incredible body of work circumnavigates the contemporary tradition of big dumb color photographs of abstracted nothingness for […]
The Symbols of Life and Decay Woven to My Hand: The Haunting of Cyril Costilhes ‘Grand Circle Diego’
@ Cyril Costilhes The insect in my mind breathes in and it wheezes out. I remember who I was when I walked across the same floor so many years ago to grab a different glass of water, which has since shattered. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 I walk across the room […]
Jean-Christian Bourcart on Camouflage, Voyeurism and Wearing Masks (1999)
“I got the idea of camouflaging my camera in Frankfurt, where I was shooting an essay on its brothels.” Interview conducted by Brigitte Ollier (Paris, October 9, 1999) English translation by R. Bononno Madeleine I got the idea of camouflaging my camera in Frankfurt, where I was shooting an […]
Consummate Parodies of Human Cuisine and Subsequent Evacuations in the Work of Thomas Mailaender
from Toilet Fail @ Thomas Mailaender When we set down our armchair politics and our bleeding heart two-minute liberalism and our redundant interest in watching a stray cheetah breastfeed orphaned piglets, we are left with but a few strands of Internet fodder we all succumb to en masse; namely pornography and people doing […]
Magnesium Whispers Shouted at Sentinel Skies in ‘The Night Climbers of Cambridge’
@ The Archive of Modern Conflict Magnesium Whispers Shouted at Sentinel Skies. By Brad Feurhelm, ASX, December 2014 Having been familiar with Thomas Mailaender’s books and output for the past six or so years since “Handicraft”, I am frankly astounded at the exceptionally refined quality of this latest offering from his collaboration with The Archive […]
An Interview with Antoine d’Agata: ‘A Simple Desire to Exist’ (2014)
“Mine is an entirely solitary pursuit as most of my time is being spent on the road, on the streets and in hotel rooms in anonymous cities.” Antoine D’Agata. A simple desire to exist. A conversation with Raphael Shammaa,.Translated from French. New York, February 7, 2014 Raphael Shammaa: How do you feel discussing your work […]