Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘2017’ at Tate Modern
“Certainly, Tillmans is enormously curious, yet his works offer surprisingly little insight. All is surface and rarely is it scratched”
Tag Archives: Snapshot Aesthetic
Feng Li: White Nights & The Grayness of Skies
“Every snapshot is an unexpected and sometimes inconvenient encounter with fate”
Goodbye America: An Interview with Brad Feuerhelm
“I did recognise the irreplaceable object and destroyed it and my embattled state of mind with America continues.”
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 […]
Petite and Magical, Luigi Ghirri’s: ‘Kodachrome’
For Ghirri, the world was a labyrinth and making pictures was a means of “tell[ing] the real identity of man, of things, of life, from the image of man, of things of life.” By Vladimir Gintoff, ASX NYC, March 2013 In 1935 Eastman Kodak introduced Kodachrome. A film stock praised for its idiosyncratic, hyper-saturated, […]
Wolfgang Tillmans “Neue Welt (New World)” (2012)
There is a very careful eye at work in these pages, and the photographs mesh even though they shouldn’t. Imagined, Imaged, Believed, or Dreamed By Paul Loomis, ASX, January 2012 Wolfgang Tillmans’ Neue Welt (New World) is littered with diverse images that are fearlessly juxtaposed. On the surface they seem to examine and reveal […]
William Eggleston – “Before Color” (2010)
William Eggleston can’t actually separate himself from his “South”. The “South” is embedded into him so deeply that it has become something of a stamp or a mark. 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 […]
Eggleston’s World (1999)
“I think of them as parts of a novel I’m doing.” By Walter Hopps, essay from The Hasselblad Award, 1998 These were the first words William Eggleston uttered when I asked what he felt he was accomplishing with his photographs. Another fine photographer from the South, William Christenberry, had brought Eggleston to meet me […]
Richard Billingham: “Ray’s a Laugh”
ASX CHANNEL: RICHARD BILLINGHAM (All rights reserved. Images @ Richard Billingham)
“The Wound Which Speaks of Unremembered Time: Nan Goldin’s Cookie Portfolio and the Autobiographics of Mourning”
Cookie at Tin Pan Alley, 1983 “I used to think I couldn’t lose anyone if I photographed them enough.” (Nan Goldin) By Mihaela Precup Long before ACT UP started rewriting the sick bodies of AIDS patients as vital, strong, and fighting back, photographer Nan Goldin thought she saw an ill omen in the underground New York […]
Nan Goldin on Cookie Mueller (2001)
“AIDS changed everything in my life. There’s life before AIDS, and after AIDS.” By Nan Goldin, for The Digital Journalist, 20 Years: Aids & Photography, 2001, brought to ASX in partnership with The Digital Journalist AIDS changed everything in my life. There’s life before AIDS, and after AIDS. We were in Fire Island that […]
