Tampering with the Sacred

Erasing ‘The Americans’

By STACEY BAKER

Mishka Henner, an artist who lives in Manchester, England, recently self-published “Less Américains.” The book consists of photographs from Robert Frank’s book “The Americans” that Henner has transformed by erasing parts of the original images. We spoke last week about what is likely to be a controversial project.

 See the full text of the article and more images at:

http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/erasing-americans/?scp=2&sq=robert%20frank&st=cse

Justine Kurland

Ahorn Magazine just released their eighth issue, featuring an essay and new work from Justine Kurland. Here are some photos.

Read the essay here.

Issue 8 also features some awesome work from Irina Rozovsky, Gregory Halpern, Pujan Shakupa, and Yaakov Israel. There are also interviews with Brian Ulrich (one of my favorites), Judith Ross, Sheron Rupp, and a few others.

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Christian Patterson

A few photos from Christian Patterson's most recent project, Redheaded Peckerwood.

View the rest over here.

Dale

Updated Lab

In honor of the new semester, I took the liberty of updating the blog! I'll update all of the links and add some new ones too. Stay tuned!

Dale

Kodak Part 2

Yesterday Kodak announced they are going to phase out their digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames. They also mentioned that they would be continuing to invest in film production, which is great news for us! Here's the BJP article.

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