Go West

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Currently reading:

A Magazine #11, curated by Rodarte

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image
of the American West (MoMA, 2009)

(cover photo: Joel Sternfeld, After a Flash Flood,
Rancho Mirage, California, 1979 (detail))

Image of the Day

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Joel Sternfeld, Nags Head, North Carolina (#15),
June-August 1975 (1975)

On view now at Luhring Augustine, NYC as part of the exhibition First Pictures, which consists of four series of photographs taken by Sternfeld between 1971 and 1980 (many never before published or shown).

This exhibition was SO GOOD. Go see it now (through Feb. 4), if you can. If not, watch this slideshow.

Have You Seen the Colors

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This show looks good.
Some very well-known stuff, some lesser-known.

When Color was New:
Vintage Photographs from Around the 1970s
Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22 Street, 6th Floor
July 7 - September 6, 2008
Summer hours: Monday-Friday 11-6. Closed August 18-25.

Above, click to enlarge. Clockwise from top left:
William Christenberry, near Marion, Alabama, 1977
William Eggleston, Memphis, 1969
Stephen Shore, New York City, Sept-Oct 1972
Mitch Epstein, Topanga Canyon, California, 1974

Joel Sternfeld, McLean, Virginia, December 4th 1978


Unrelated and underrated:

Samara Lubelski Have You Seen the Colors mp3

Samara Lubelski has a bunch of solo records and has also played with Thurston Moore, White Magic, the American Analog Set, and many others. More info at her website.