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.
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.
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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.
We need our own space to think and digest what we see. And we also have to trust the viewer and trust the power of the object. And the power is in simple things. I like the kind of clarity that that brings to thought. It keeps thought from being opaque.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
