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Anna from Every Angle
02/17

Anna from Every Angle

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Encyclopedia of the Exquisite’s entry on Milk Baths introduces the Ziegfeld sensation Anna Held, who was famously sued by a milk farmer for the amount she owed for keeping her bath tub filled with milk. She’s one of my favorite…

Sugimoto's Screen Test
08/04

Sugimoto’s Screen Test

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I’ve been thinking lately of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s theater series, which he first showed in 1988. They’re mysterious, ornate, forgotten, nostalgic, romantic, and maybe a bit haunted. Sugimoto described his inspiration as a conversation with himself. “Suppose you shoot a whole movie…

Wisconsin Death Trip
05/29

Wisconsin Death Trip

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Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, shop although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, pharm author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County,…

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