Stacy J. Platt

Consideration of an Image: Otto Steinert's Ein-Fuß-Gänger
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Consideration of an Image: Otto Steinert's Ein-Fuß-Gänger

Is it a blurred man? Or is it an erased man? It's more of a mark on a page than the blur of motion that we're seeing, the kind of mark made in a gesture of erasure. Make a drawing of a man in charcoal, then close your fist and smear it across the entire image of everything man-like of him save the f
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Japanese Photography in 2015: the Master List

This is a great moment for Japanese photography connoisseurs and enthusiasts. For a long while now, photographic japanophilia was an interest that had to be nursed solely with foreign book purchases, the rare North American exhibition (or the less-rare European one), and abundant, if limited, use of
James Luckett: Botanist of the Sidewalk
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James Luckett: Botanist of the Sidewalk

The images on view in Suginami are at odds with my imagined vision of a bustling, crowded and intense city. It's as if on these walks the city has become a ghost, a place of emptying-out. The light seems bright, midday in character, and the neighborhood homes and apartments are silent, except for th