American Suburb X

• ASX INTERVIEW: Broomberg & Chanarin “Divine Violence” (2013)
  Brad Feuerhelm interviews Broomberg & Chanarin for ASX, April 2013 Brad Feuerhelm: I wanted to start off with a question about the forthcoming book project with Mack. I believe it is a Bible (king James?) that has had a photographic intervention… and perhaps a bit different than Francis Frith’s 19th century intervention as it plays less on the specificit […]
• ASX.TV: Willem de Kooning – “Fire Damaged Studio Footage” (1966)
  “Fire damaged footage of De Kooning in his East Hampton studio mid August of 1966. The history of the footage: De Kooning, was a close friend of mine and of the poet Frank O’Hara. A month before this footage was shot , O’Hara was killed by a car on Fire Island, Me and O’Hara had been working on some new films at the time, and De Kooning was in one as Captian […]
• DAVID GOLDBLATT: “PARTICULARS” (1975)
  “My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can recall was of the bulges made by the flattened flesh of my inner thighs as I sat in shorts on a bench at kindergarten. From where I sat my bulges seemed more pronounced than anyone else’s and I tried to hide them with my hands. After a time I realized that my inner thighs were no different from others. Bu […]