Cornelia Barber: Looking at Emma’s Dilemma
"There is No Scene Here” Looking at Emma’s Dilemma (Henry Hills, 2012) by Cornelia Barber To look is to be curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it. Looking is always demeaning. The word conversation is banished. I think that’s what best conveys the...
From Al Purdy’s Storm Warning 2
In my reading around Al Purdy of late I came across a copy of Storm Warning 2. I would love to get the poems up too, but I'll start with this amazing gallery of poets circa 1975.
Jen Benka: Poemgraphs
SQ: I love these, Jen. I'm amazed at how different they are, given the sameness of the type, the basic poem, as a visual from this distance. Can you tell me how you got started? JB: Thank you, Sina. Well, I studied photography in college, in addition to writing, and have on- and off-again experimented with...
In conversation: Zoe Strauss
(Photograph by Zoe Strauss) If you reading this fuck you Zoe Strauss is a self-taught photography-based installation artist. She lives and works in Philadelphia where she was born (at Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first), and with the exception of a brief sojourn in Nevada, where she was raised. Strauss comes from a close-knit family. Her...
The red patch smelled like clover
The red patch smelled like clover, originally uploaded by lemon hound. One of a series from an old group of photos added to a Six Word Stories pool. Not sure that the title is enough to gesture toward a narrative, but it does give a motivation for the movement, I suppose, and knits together the...
Aspect Ratio
Ongoing series of Montreal shots, particularly focusing on the northeast corner of the plateau.
Scale
Not quite back in the province of my youth, but close. Such a different scale.Thinking more about Jeff Wall and now this Vancouver born photographer, who graduated from Emily Carr. Karin Bubas series Studies in Landscape and Wardrobe reminds me a little too much of those 70s fashion spreads mimicking that ubiquitous photographer--soft focus, near...
The Men Around Here