American Negatives

Abner Nolan takes old found negatives and reprints them. There’s not a lot of his work online, but he did do a limited edition book with Trillium called American Negatives which looks like it might be out of print. He will have another limited edition coming out in the next year with These Birds [...]

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Black Holes

I’ve often wondered if memories were qualitatively different before photography was invented. When a loved one dies we have the crutch of a family snapshot to remind us of details that without the photo might become cloudy.
The online photo magazine, Lens Culture featured the work of Ludmila Steckelberg recently, a Brazilian artist [...]

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Postcards from the Edge

Any photo project wrapped up with travel and travel memorabilia gets my attention immediately. Michael Hughes created a clever photo series called Souvenirs on Flickr in which he playfully shoots tourist attractions with a tourist tchotchke slyly inserted in the frame—at Cadillac Ranch a red toy Cadillac held in a fist lines up [...]

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Big Picture

Panoramic images usually take as their subject big things like canyons, mighty rivers, landscapes, long lineups of people or parades — things that don’t fit into a normal viewfinder. Aaron Hobson takes the panoramic lens and uses it to zoom in on his subjects, blowing intimate scenes up into bigger than life closeups — [...]

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Remains of the Day (or Week or Month)

Artkrush decorated their last newsletter with German photographer Vera Lutter’s camera obscura image of San Marco. The picture has all the inverted elegance of a film negative with its shadows that gleam and bright sunlight that turns black. But Lutter’s images are about more than just light and dark. Standard photographs are instantaneous; [...]

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Travels into the Interior

If you’re not familiar with the art magazine Esopus you should definitely take a look. Editor Tod Lippy runs the publication without advertising and still manages to create a beautifully designed object that travels well outside the physical and conceptual idea of a magazine.
Between its glossy covers, lies a 3-dimensional world, as if the pages [...]

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Little People

Stumbled across the photographer Audrey Heller while browsing the local quarterly food journal, Edible San Francisco; her photo graces the cover. Heller specializes in images that stage Lilliputian-sized people in the middle of our much larger day-to-day universe, reeling the viewer in to look more closely at these miniature toy worlds.
In “The Shrew,” a [...]

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Sweating Up a Storm

Marilyn Minter’s images grace the summer issue of Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story. Each month the quarterly invites a guest designer to contribute artwork and set the visual theme. Past designers include David Byrne, Zaha Hadid, Will Oldham, William Eggleston and even Tom Waits who delivered with his special collection of [...]

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It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a Magazine in a Bag.

Johnny and Giselle Brewton of X-Ray Book Company have rolled out a new collaborative art project called Bagazine—it’s a magazine in a clear plastic bag chock full of small artist pieces. In the words of Brewton himself, it’s “a creative Happening.” The magazine asks for small graphical, handcrafted pieces, such as prints, [...]

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Mexico’s Weegee

If you’ve traveled in Mexico, you know the sensational crime papers with scenes of grisly accidents and murders splattered across the front page. 73-year-old Enrique Metinides is one of Mexico’s top crime photographers whose work falls in this category, but his images, although they force us to be voyeurs, do so in a way [...]

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