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Elizabeth Bishop, "Cabin with Porthole." Elizabeth Bishop was a painter as well as a poet, and the paintings that she left to her partner Alice Methfessel, who died in 2009, are now being sold....
View ArticleHow William Eggleston Would Photograph a Baseball Game
Photo: Leah Sobsey/leahsobsey.com I am at war with the obvious. —William Eggleston Not long ago, I wrote about the formal and spiritual affinities between baseball and the genre of music called power...
View ArticleA Gun and a Guitar
Jerry McGill: Sun Records artist, Memphis fixture, and “crazy sonofabitch.” Photo: Randall Lyon, Jim Lancaster Jerry McGill by the numbers, hazy as they may be: He cut one 45 for Sun Records (the...
View ArticleA Taste of The Photographer’s Cookbook
Stephen Shore, New York City, New York, September–October 1972. © Stephen Shore, Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York. Our dual subscription deal with Lucky Peach technically ended last...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Forehead Blotches, Lasagna Hogs, and Crust Punks
From William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest. In the new issue of Aperture, our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, pays a visit to William Eggleston in Memphis. As you might expect, it is a...
View ArticleTerror That Makes Knees Tremble, and Other News
From an early edition of Absalom, Absalom! When Toni Morrison looks at Trump’s victory, she sees echoes of Faulkner: “So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans...
View ArticleBlue Shores
Stephen Shore, Commercial Avenue, Cairo, Illinois, May 10, 1974, color photograph. Aperture, 2017. I These photographs are, ostensibly, different: a blue, shuttered used-clothing store; a blue car...
View ArticleThe Old, Weird Days of National Public Radio
William Eggleston, untitled, from the “Los Alamos Series,” 1965–74. © William Eggleston. From Autophoto (Éditions Xavier Barral, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2017). It’s January 1,...
View ArticleOde to Gray
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Støvkornenes dans i solstrålerne (Dust motes dancing in sunbeams), 1900. The color gray is no one’s color. It is the color of cubicles and winter camouflage, of sullage, of...
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We’re away until January 2, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday! Vilhelm Hammershøi, Støvkornenes dans i solstrålerne (Dust motes dancing in sunbeams), 1900....
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