In Vilém Flusser’s Towards a Philosophy of Photography he describes photographs as harbingers of the post-industrial information economy – their value as unique objects is negligible because what is of value is the information they carry. In the digital age, this takes on an even greater significance because most photography now exists without ever being […]
Morganna Magee’s book Phenomena, made in collaboration with Orgini Edizioni, is delicate, beautiful, and human. Its clothbound cover is subtly patterned to resemble wood grain. The book is signature bound and sealed with ribbon and has gold accents on the stitching, cover and the edges of a few pages which are hand painted with a […]
Dan Skjæveland’s 33 Suspensions is a book of thirty three allusive, abstract and desaturated images. Published in 2023, the book’s title is a musing on Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations, though Skjæveland’s images do not have the same typological quality as Ruscha’s. The images in the book do share a number of formal and aesthetic traits, […]
Between the late 1970s and early 1980s Larry Sultan produced a series of underwater photographs in public swimming pools in Northern California. A body of work which at first glance looks unlike anything else in his oeuvre, Swimmers appears to be a departure from the more conceptual approach of Sultan’s earlier output. It was met […]