I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
- Guy Ben-Ner by Thom Donovan
- Patricia Clarkson by Howard Altmann
- Sam Lipsyte by Christopher Sorrentino
- Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe
- David Sylvian by Keith Rowe
- Carlos Reygadas by Jose Castillo
- T.J. Wilcox by Anne Collier
- Charles Bernstein by Jay Sanders
Interviews
- May by Simon Lane
- Three Poems by Kimiko Hahn
- An Occurrence at Bernal Dwellings by Scott Winokur
- Five Poems by Max Blagg
- Black Ice by Joshua Furst
- Two Poems by Bill Berkson
- Excerpt from Netsuke: A Novel by Rikki Ducornet
First Proof
Allen Frame, Mateo, Brooklyn, 2000, selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 20 × 24 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and Gitterman Gallery.
Allen Frame, Josh and Tiago, São Paulo, 2006, selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 20 × 24 inches.
Allen Frame, Highway, São Paulo, 2006, selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 20 × 24 inches.
Allen Frame, Jenny, Brooklyn, 2000, selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 20 × 24 inches.
This issue of First Proof is funded in part by the Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation and the Thanksgiving Fund.
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Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity in the enduring imagery of the American West.
From Unnamed Road, 2010–15, a series of photographs taken in Israel and Palestine.
Originally published in
BOMB 111,
Spring 2010
Featuring interviews with Guy Ben-Ner, T.J Wilcox and Anne Collier, Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Clarkson and Howard Altmann, David Sylvian and Keith Rowe, Edgar Arceneaux and Charles Gaines and Rick Lowe, Charles Bernstein.
