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.
—
Derrick Adams
From Slight Disturbances by Charles Mary Kubricht
- Jacqueline Humphries by Cecily Brown
- Eric Kraft by Andrei Codrescu
- Roxy Paine by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
- Adam Bartos by A.M. Homes
- Mary Gaitskill by Matthew Sharpe
- The Yes Men by Steve Lambert
- Pauline Oliveros by Cory Arcangel
- Matthew Buckingham by Josiah McElheny
Interviews
- Portfolio by Bill Jacobson
- Traveling Fools by Ana Menéndez
- Four Poems by Rusty Morrison
- You Are Your Own Very Unique Snowflake by Sally Anne Clegg
- Three Poems (Poetry Prize Winner) by J.R. Thelin
- From Slight Disturbances by Charles Mary Kubricht
- Everything You See Is Real by Ben Ehrenreich
- Three Poems by Laura Mullen
- Dutch Boy 32-V by Michael Martone
First Proof
- Mickalene Thomas by Kara Walker
- Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers
- Joyce Pensato by Marcella Durand
Artists on Artists
- John from Cincinnati by Cameron Shaw
- FM3’s Buddha Machine 2.0 by Timothy Boyd
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man by Erik Morse
- Lutz Bacher’s SMOKE (Gets in Your Eyes) by Ben Handzo
- The Marfa Sessions: Sounds across Town by Victoria Miguel
- The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Scott Shepherd
- Serpentina Satélite’s Nothing to Say by Eric Schneider
- Kristin Palm’s The Straits by Mónica de la Torre
- Laurie Sheck’s A Monster’s Notes by Kimiko Hahn
- Vanessa Place’s La Medusa by Stefanie Sobelle
- Kevin Wilson’s Tunneling to the Center of the Earth and Jon Raymond’s Livability by Lena Valencia
Editor's Choice
6619, 03/05/2008, 3:32:35, archival inkjet print, 2008. All images courtesy of the artist.
Several historical moments, technological stages of development, and political agendas converge at Mount Livermore, which is located 50 miles from the US–Mexico border in far West Texas. It is a landmark for drug smugglers, undocumented workers, US Border Patrol trackers, scientists, and environmentalists. By exploring the continuously shifting figure-ground relations of this multivalent landscape, the series Slight Disturbances questions what constitutes viewpoint, wholeness of form, shape, and perceptual field.
4834, 08/31/2007, 10:32:51, archival inkjet print, 2007-8
5184, 09/01/2007, 4:21:53, archival inkjet print, 2008
This issue of First Proof is funded in part by the Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation and the Thanksgiving Foundation.
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From Unnamed Road, 2010–15, a series of photographs taken in Israel and Palestine.
“We have to tell the truth in the image.”
Originally published in
BOMB 107,
Spring 2009
Featuring interviews with Adam Bartos and A.M. Homes, Jacqueline Humphries, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Andrei Codrescu, Mary Gaitskill, Matthew Buckingham, and Pauline Oliveros.
