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David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit/Hare Texas Reason – AMERICAN SUBURB X

David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit/Hare Texas Reason

“The picture stays in the kid. Tell heaven don’t wait for me”

What is an image produced if not the perversion of self either in or out of frame? Authorship is dictatorship, no? What to do with a pare?

Game Over, and if this isn’t an obvi

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Pardon me while I bloviate awkwardly regarding the magnificent efforts of David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit /Hare published by Deadbeat Club in the year of our Ford, 2020 (Technically). The book is packed with singular impacting images that show a Texas of the mind instead of a pre-packaged land of people built on simple historic myth and the stereotypes that one reaches for in the mind if unfamiliar. Sure, there are cowboys. They are African American and often women. There isn’t a piece of BBQ in sight, but the natural world rages upon the frame from aviary flights of fancy to the car’s rearview window to the feline onslaught reaching for similar prey. There are hints of religious experience, the ecstasy of which is being carried out by a girl holding her nose underwater and another man dreamily laying against the ground in nocturnal bliss.

November 11, 2020
Mimi Plumb: Sheltering Under The White Sky – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Mimi Plumb: Sheltering Under The White Sky

“I hear the sound of victory. I hear the sound of victory. I hear the sound of victory”. 1976, the centenary-a procrastinator’s wet dream”

The kids are smiling, their bodies are interlaced within the disused tire mound and the coyote snarls staring

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Mimi Plumb’s The White Sky (Stanley/Barker, 2020) is the excellent follow-up to her much acclaimed Landfall (TBW, 2018). The White Sky continues to mine her archive of California and the social and psychological terrain of the 70’s American West. The book is somehow a little less about spectacle than Landfall was and in many ways, this adds layers to her vision. Instead of a stellar flow of single overly strong images, which worked as perfect introduction to Mimi’s work, with The White Sky there is something more subtle at play. That is not to suggest the images are less attractive or that they do not stand on their own, but there feels like a more cohesive thread between the images of children and the 70’s Californian landscape that they inhabit than previously seen.

November 10, 2020
Frozen Are the Winds of Time – Photographs by Wang Lu | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Frozen Are the Winds of Time – Photographs by Wang Lu | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Returning to her hometown in China after many years away, Wang Lu’s images grapple with time and change, from her personal relationship with her father to the shifting cityscape outside his window

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Returning to her hometown in China after many years away, Wang Lu’s images grapple with time and change, from her personal relationship with her father to the shifting cityscape outside his window.

November 10, 2020
Leica Unveils the Q2 Monochrom: 46.7 Megapixels, 28mm f/1.7 Fixed-Lens

Leica Unveils the Q2 Monochrom: 46.7 Megapixels, 28mm f/1.7 Fixed-Lens

Leica has announced the Q2 Monochrom, its latest monochrome camera that joins Leica’s black and white heritage along with the M10 Monochrom unveiled

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Leica has announced the Q2 Monochrom, its latest monochrome camera that joins Leica’s black and white heritage along with the M10 Monochrom unveiled earlier this year. It features a high-resolution sensor, a toned-down design, and a macro mode.

November 10, 2020
Poetic Shades of Black and White – The Leica camera Blog

https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/11/10/poetic-shades-of-black-and-white/

Zurich photographer Philipp Weinmann was one of the first given the opportunity to try out the Leica Q2 Monochrom.

November 10, 2020
Laurie Blakeslee: The States Project: Idaho – LENSCRATCH

Laurie Blakeslee: The States Project: Idaho – LENSCRATCH

Laurie Blakeslee’s photography is a poignant look inside family, memory and loss, capturing moments of her aging parents and their consuming passions. Laurie was the first person I met when I moved to Idaho from Arkansas. Actually, we met before I moved

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Laurie Blakeslee’s photography is a poignant look inside family, memory and loss, capturing moments of her aging parents and their consuming passions. Laurie was the first person I met when I moved to Idaho from Arkansas. Actually, we met before I moved, at a national Society for Photographic Education conference and I count myself very lucky to have her be my introduction to Boise. I thoroughly enjoy Laurie’s ability to capture the quiet complexities of family and the weight her images give to the simplest things.

November 10, 2020
Photos exploring the cost of the American dream

Photos exploring the cost of the American dream

Photographer Diana Markosian pieces together memories of moving to America from Moscow as a child in a new book.

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When photographer Diana Markosian was younger, her mother whisked her away from Moscow to America to start a new life. In a new book, Markosian pieces together those memories.

November 7, 2020
A trucker’s photographic ode to America

A trucker’s photographic ode to America

Photographer and truck-driver Ryan Shorosky has driven all over the US, along the way capturing remarkable landscapes.

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Photographer and truck-driver Ryan Shorosky has driven all over the US, along the way capturing remarkable landscapes and experiencing first-hand the country’s deep divisions.

November 5, 2020
Unflinching Photojournalism from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 – Feature Shoot

Unflinching Photojournalism from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 – Feature Shoot

In his natural rainforest habitat, this young macaque would have lived in a large group with other animals. By the time the photojournalist and wildlife trade consultant Paul Hilton found…

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In his natural rainforest habitat, this young macaque would have lived in a large group with other animals. By the time the photojournalist and wildlife trade consultant Paul Hilton found him, he was alone, tied to a cage at an animal market in Indonesia. His parents would have been killed, and after this photo was made, the orphaned animal would have been sold, perhaps as a pet, to a zoo, to be eaten, or to be used in biomedical research.

November 5, 2020
The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk

The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk

If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.

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If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.

November 5, 2020
Baron Wolman, Whose Photos Helped Start Rolling Stone, Dies at 83 – The New York Times

Baron Wolman, Whose Photos Helped Start Rolling Stone, Dies at 83

He was the magazine’s first photographer, capturing Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and many more in the days before image control.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone magazine’s first photographer, liked to tell of the time he took a picture of something that wasn’t there.

November 5, 2020
Baron Wolman, One of Rock and Roll’s Most Iconic Photographers, Dies at 83

Baron Wolman, One of Rock and Roll’s Most Iconic Photographers, Dies at 83

Rolling Stone’s first staff photographer Baron Wolman has passed away at the age of 83. Though known primarily for his work with the rock magazine where

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Rolling Stone’s first staff photographer Baron Wolman has passed away at the age of 83. Though known primarily for his work with the rock magazine where he captured some of Rock’s most iconic imagery, Wolman’s photography career was vast and varied.

November 4, 2020
In the West, Carolyn Drake Seeks New Expressions of American Identity

In the West, Carolyn Drake Seeks New Expressions of American Identity

Drake’s photographs reveal the textures of a nation too often reduced to myths, stereotypes, and clichés.

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Drake’s photographs reveal the textures of a nation too often reduced to myths, stereotypes, and clichés.

November 4, 2020
Claudia Lopez: Dualities – LENSCRATCH

Claudia Lopez: Dualities – LENSCRATCH

Born in America and raised in Juárez, Mexico, photographer Claudia Lopez charts the narratives that trace back and forth over the border that separates Lopez and her family from the city that will always be her first home. Like many others, Lopez and her

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Born in America and raised in Juárez, Mexico, photographer Claudia Lopez charts the narratives that trace back and forth over the border that separates Lopez and her family from the city that will always be her first home. Like many others, Lopez and her family migrated to America in a flight away from crime and poverty to start a new life. At the age of twenty, she started anew in the country she was born in, but didn’t know.

November 4, 2020
Winners of the 2020 Epson Pano Awards Feature Stunning Wide Vistas

Winners of the 2020 Epson Pano Awards Feature Stunning Wide Vistas

The Epson 2020 Pano Awards recently concluded, naming winners from around the world in multiple categories. The awards are designed to showcase the work

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The Epson 2020 Pano Awards recently concluded, naming winners from around the world in multiple categories. The awards are designed to showcase the work of panoramic photographers and is the largest such competition in the world.

November 3, 2020
Brave Beauties: Zanele Muholi on Self-Portraiture – Photographs and text by Zanele Muholi | LensCulture

Brave Beauties: Zanele Muholi on Self-Portraiture – Photographs and text by Zanele Muholi | LensCulture

Zanele Muholi teases apart one of her favorite images from her 2016 series of self-portraits in an exclusive conversation with LensCulture

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South African photographer (and self-titled visual activist) Zanele Muholi has gained international recognition for her direct, powerful imagery. Muholi devoted years to a body of work called Faces and Phases (2006-2016), in which she directed her camera towards members of the black lesbian and trans community in South Africa. Muholi has exposed herself to innumerable acts of aggression and violence during the course of her career. Despite this, she continues to pursue her work, in part to insist on a visual history and visibility for members of her long-overlooked community.

November 3, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – Sohei Nishino’s City Maps Are Made From 1000s of Photos

Juxtapoz Magazine – Sohei Nishino’s City Maps Are Made From 1000s of Photos

To create one of his Diorama Maps, Japanese artist and cartographer Sohei Nishino spends an intense month exploring a city on foot; shooting…

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To create one of his Diorama Maps, Japanese artist and cartographer Sohei Nishino spends an intense month exploring a city on foot; shooting, developing thousands of photographs followed by several more months cutting, pasting and arranging the re-imagined city.

November 3, 2020
Portraits of my Mother – Photographs by Joey Solomon | Interview by Lodoe Laura Haines-Wangda | LensCulture

Portraits of my Mother – Photographs by Joey Solomon | Interview by Lodoe Laura Haines-Wangda | LensCulture

For the past 8 years, Joey Solomon has been photographing his mother

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For the past 8 years, Joey Solomon has been photographing his mother. In the process of taking these monochrome portraits, he attempts to unpack their shared and hereditary mental illness.

November 2, 2020
Ryan Debolski: Remember My Whatsapp Number Bro – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Ryan Debolski: Remember My Whatsapp Number Bro

“In contrast to the concrete metaphors in the urban architecture and the materiality of construction, the bodies and flesh of the workers on the beach refer to something humane: of the flesh, tactile and intimate, something that is deeply lacking in these

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“In contrast to the concrete metaphors in the urban architecture and the materiality of construction, the bodies and flesh of the workers on the beach refer to the humane: of the flesh, tactile and intimate, something that is deeply lacking in these otherwise isolated lives.”

November 1, 2020
#LeicaConversations – Elizabeth Avedon & Debi Cornwall – YouTube

#LeicaConversations – Elizabeth Avedon & Debi Cornwall

2x juror for the Leica Women Foto Project, photo book and exhibition designer, Elizabeth Avedon, joins Leica Women Foto Project Awardee, conceptual documenta…

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2x juror for the Leica Women Foto Project, photo book and exhibition designer, Elizabeth Avedon, joins Leica Women Foto Project Awardee, conceptual documentary artist and filmmaker, Debi Cornwall, for a conversation focused on the importance book-making has had in her career and could have in yours.

October 31, 2020