The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Frog by Michael Hurson
- Frederic Tuten by Bruce Wolmer
- A World Apart, A Dialogue in Three Parts: Chris Menges by Liza Béar
- A World Apart, A Dialogue in Three Parts: Linda Mvusi by Liza Béar
- A World Apart, A Dialogue in Three Parts: Shawn Slovo by Liza Béar
- Dorothea Rockburne by Saul Ostrow
- Gary Stephan by Georgia Marsh
- Stockard Channing by Craig Gholson
Interviews
- Black Rainbow by Klaus Kertess
- Repetition by Leslie Dick
- Anna, Who Didn’t Believe In The Sea by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Three Poems by Martha Rhodes
- Batista’s Lieutenant by Todd Grimson
- Window Life by Vincent Katz
- A Bestiary by Bradford Morrow
First Proof
- Frog by Michael Hurson
- Untitled Painting by Moira Dryer
- Untitled (II) by Richmond Burton
- Untitled, XXI by Willem de Kooning
- 1450 by Andrew Masullo
- Mondino by David Seidner
- Rooster by Brett DePalma
- Two Paintings by Cora Cohen
- A Thigh-Length History of the Fashion Photograph, An Abbreviated Theory of the Body by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe & Stephanie Hermsdorf
- Two Works by Jene Highstein
- Binding Difference by Michael Young
More
Michael Hurson, Frog, 1988, linoleum cut four colors. For A Bestiary by Bradford Morrow, published by Grenfell Press.
Related
Two photograms featuring imprints left by kittens on photographic paper.
Originally published in
BOMB 25,
Fall 1998
Stockard Channing, Frederic Tuten, Dorothea Rockburne, Shawn Slovo, Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe & Stefanie Hermsdorf, Gary Stephan, Chris Menges, and Linda Mvusi.
