Archives for the ‘archive’ Category

Debbie Grossman

Debbie Grossman Work from My Pie Town. “In the spring of 1940, Russell Lee wrote to his boss at the Farm Security Administration, Roy Stryker, proposing to spend several weeks shooting Pie Town, New Mexico, a small settlement of homesteaders near the western edge of the state. Lee wanted to photograph there because he felt […]

Kelly Shimoda

Kelly Shimoda Work from I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore. “I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore serves to document mobile phone text messages and preserve a form of communication that is fleeting by design and rarely seen by anyone other than the original author or intended recipient. […]

Mickey Smith

Mickey Smith Work from Collocations and Belive You Me. _______________________________ Volume documents bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been destroyed. Searching endless rows of utilitarian text, I am struck by the physical mass […]

Peter Piller

Peter Piller Work from Straßenende/Wendehammer and Autowäsche (Street-ends and Car Washing). The Peter Piller Archiv is a massive compendium of collected imagery, go check it out. An interesting article in Frieze here. “As any curator will tell you, editing is an art, and many artists practice it. While working as a picture editor for an […]

Darryl Lauster

  Darryl Lauster Works from his oeuvre, which can be seen at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery and Barry Whistler Gallery. Title List (in Order): 1. Exercise Desert Rock, D-Day blast at Yucca Flats, 1951, photograph by Cpl. McCaughey, from the National Archives Records of the Office of Chief Signal Officer 2. A Young Civil […]