American Suburb X

• DAVID MOORE: “Pictures from the Real World” (2013)
  David Moore: Colour Photographs 1987-­88 Pictures From The Real World Essay by David Chandler If the chemically charged 1960s brought new constellations of colour to the drab austerity of post‐war Britain, then British documentary photography remained that period’s more sober shadow: resolutely black and white and firmly rooted in a past, it was the serious, […]
• JOHN SZARKOWSKI: “On Robert Frank’s Book ‘The Americans’” (1986)
  contact sheet from The Americans   “I saw it I suppose very shortly after it was published, when I was still working as a photographer myself, and it was, frankly, shocking. I sensed the power in it, and the authority about it but there was much about it that I didn’t like… The Americans was received with mixed critical reaction. Not primarily because of its […]
• ASX INTERVIEW: Gregory Halpern – “On Documentary Ethics” (2013)
  From A, by Gregory Halpern ASX asks artists a single question, Cameron Van Loos begins with Gregory Halpern, April 2013 Cameron Van Loos: How do documentary ethics function within your photography? Gregory Halpern: To ask what one’s ethics are when making photographs of other people is as complicated as asking what one’s ethics are in general. I should start […]