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Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992

Franklin Mount

Out of the Shadows: Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992 Exhibition: Throckmorton Fine Art, through January 25, 2020. It’s terribly difficult to photograph a famous person and then actually produce a...

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Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World – Review

Marc Olmsted

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World By Tosh Berman City Lights Books $17.95 reviewed by Marc Olmsted I first came across Wallace Berman's artwork in an underground newspaper in the late '60s - I can no long...

Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City – Photographs by Meryl Meisler

Franklin Mount

Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City Meryl Meisler, Bizarre Publishing, 2016 Do you remember New York before Reagan and the cult of the Free Market? Before it became Singapore on the Hudson? Meryl Meisl...

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Gerard Petrus Fieret: Lurid and Exalted Photographs

Greg Masters

The women are posing, yes. But they are not engaged in a casual flirtation with a man who has persuaded them to return to his studio with him. I am supposing that the ordinariness of their day in a small town in Holland has ...

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Street Photographs – Rick Piel

Rick Piel

I love looking at the world, especially cities, the way each neighborhood has its own look and feel. I can't paint, I'm a lousy poet. Photography is the perfect way to express my love. I've been documenting the streets of Wa...

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Enthrall & Squalor: Photographing Downtown 1977-1987

John Weed

“Walking home at night was taking your life in your own hands.” Or so said one of the subjects of the documentary Blank City, about life in the East Village in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. (By 1990, your...

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Stephen Shore – The Museum of Modern Art

Franklin Mount

A friend of mine once told me that his photography teacher admonished the class never to turn in a photograph of a sunset. Too obvious, too easy. How does one take a photograph that is beautiful, revelatory, and not repeat w...

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The Miniature Lower East Side

Dennis Gordon

The Miniature Lower East Side I've been drawn to abandoned buildings for as long as I can remember. As a boy, the challenge and malice of breaking into forbidden places without getting caught and finding my own sec...

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Irving Penn Centennial

Franklin Mount

Irving Penn Centennial At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through July 30, 2017 Money. Status. Power. Fashion. Style. Art. And some humanity, if it’s in the budget. Postwar New York. The first object we s...

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Three Poems by George Wallace

George Wallace

These three poems will appear in George Wallace's latest book, "Shadow of the Slow Decline" (Blue Light Press, SF Ca), scheduled for release in the spring of 2017. SHE LIVES IN A LITTLE PLACE OF BOATS Like a...