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Thanks, Barry, for the Michael Fried suggestion - I don't know his essays or poetry. I hope my essays meet your standards of "rigor". Both Color & B & W are retrenching - throwing out the good editor, John Lavine - and going back into amateur hour contest issues, etc. Stephen ________________________________ From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sun, February 27, 2011 10:18:03 AM Subject: Re: Jim Goldberg - photographer of the Mideast & Thanks, Stephen. B & W was more often on Borders' shelves than Color. Now I'll assume I'll have to access those mags on the shelves of local university libraries. As for in depth critical discussion of contemporary photographers, I agree that I usually don't expect to find it within the covers of most specialized photography magazines, but if I looked through the last 20 years of Artforum . . . Michael Fried's WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS ART AS NEVER BEFORE strikes me as about as rigorous as one is going to find when it comes to critical treatment of recent photography, including the work of Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Not to mention that Fried has published a number of volumes of poetry. Barry On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:37:20 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Thanks, Barry. "Color" is/was the name of the Magazine, and you read it probably >in its last real issue. For a couple of years I wrote regularly - actually big >longish essays - for that magazine & its companion, Black & White magazines. In >both I got to critically cover the careers of a number of great contemporary >photographers: the late Larry Sultan, Leo Rubenfien, Michael Light, Linda >Connor, Joel Leivick among them. > > >To save the essays from disappearing (no there is no website for the mag), I am >working on getting them published as a book. Other than shortish show based >reviews, I discovered it's really hard to find much in depth critical discussion >of contemporary photographers. Ironic in light of photography's 0 to 60 miles >and hour ascendancy in the art market in the last 20 years. > >By the way one of your D.C. Museums - the ever fragile Corcoran - just provided >SF MOMA with a great Muybridge show. > > >Stephen V > > > > >________________________________ >From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:44:12 PM >Subject: Re: Jim Goldberg - photographer of the Mideast & > >I should mention that I read Stephen Vincent's useful essay on Jim Goldberg >within a photography magazine while relaxing in Borders Book Store in White >Flint Mall after walking for exercise. I can't remember which magazine, and >since that Borders location is now in the process of closing, I'd appreciate a >bibliographic citation. Assume it isn't and may never be available online. > >Enjoyed a talk by Jim Goldberg a number of years ago at an unmentionable museum >in Washington DC and traces of an earlier project at an equally unmentionable >alternative space here are in my possession. JG escaped untainted. > >Barry > > >On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:37:31 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> >wrote: > >>Jim Goldberg, photographer/artist/wordsmith - a SF colleague & member of Magnum >>- has done some extraordinary work exploring and artfully documenting that >>terrain of migrants that includes those who have been sex trafficked, or are >>economic or political refugees from a radius that includes Russia, north Africa >>& India. I bring Jim's work up because much of it intimately lives within that >>nerve center from which these eruptions around the Mediterranean are flying >more >>than ever into public consciousness. I think it's right on and into the geist >of >>that zone in which your own country ceases to exist. >> >> >>You may have seen Goldberg's work exhibited in London, France and Italy during >>the last couple of years. Steidl published his "Open See", a boxed set of four >>books, now going into a second printing. Or, for a quick sense, you can see the >>work posted on Magnum website. >> >> >>Stephen Vincent