2010 This summer took me all over the place. I went to Acre and Harold Arts residency programs. I traveled along the Ohio River to finish Plume. I went to New York to hustle my new book around town. I did a lot of trips out of the city to shoot jobs. And now I’m [...]
West Saint Paul, Minnesota, © TJ Proechel © Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan Here’s potentially the most eloquent sentence I’ve ever written on this blog: I like Ahorn Magazine a lot. Combining both an interest in defining how past greats influenced the art form with a look at contemporary practices, Ahorn has a little bit [...]
I have another essay in Ahorn Magazine, for their follow-up issue. I wrote a review on Robert Adams’ seminal The New West, reissued by Aperture recently. The online magazine looks great as always, Daniel and Anya do a great job. Also be sure to take a look at the feature on Ben Alper‘s work (who [...]
As you may know, April’s Modern Painters is the photography issue. Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of the magazine. The writing is generally vague, uninspired, and “backstory” heavy (“This artist works in painting. His father was a painter. Let me tell you about a well-known historical fact regarding painting”). They also redesigned the magazine [...]
Man, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate clean and well-designed websites. The first issue of Ahorn Magazine is now online, and it’s beautiful. Between this magazine and Noel’s Wassenaar, I’m glad there is something to counteract all the terribly designed photography web magazines out there. Like I mentioned earlier, I have a feature [...]
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I know there are a plethora of young people starting internet photo magazines, but I haven’t seen this one posted around yet. ROMKA Magazine features some nice work, but you have to sift through a lot of mediocrity to get to it. I also like that you are required to download the pdf of the [...]
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