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
Three Photographs by Jacki Ochs
- Angela Carter by Rosemary Carroll
- Joan Mitchell by Cora Cohen & Betsy Sussler
- Rodion Zaveriyayev by Dmitri Volchek
- Spalding Gray by Karry Kammer
Interviews
- Ostranenia by Alison Armstrong
- Three Poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
- Two Poems by Dmitri Volchek
- Two Poems by Elena Shvarts
- Idée Fixe by Gary Indiana
- A History of the World by Hal Foster
- Living (1983–85) by Lyn Hejinian
- Two Poems by Ruth Danon
- The $200, or Shit on Heroin by Terence Sellers
- Three Poems by Viktor Krivulin
First Proof
- Two Paintings by Unknown Artists
- Two Photographs by Barbara Ess
- Untitled by Sergei Bugayev
- Two Paintings by Bill Komoski
- Three Photographs by Boris Smelov
- Two Paintings by Cora Cohen
- Two Paintings by Carl Palazzolo
- Vienna by Christoph Scharff
- Two Paintings by Donald McLaughlin
- Three Photographs by Jacki Ochs
- Leningrad by Jacki Ochs & Lyn Hejinian
- Untitled Painting by Oleg Kotelnikov
- Two Drawings by Louise Fishman
- Two Paintings by Mary Heilmann
- Paradise by Michael Young
- Untitled Painting by Michael Zwack
- Two Works by Rebecca Purdum
- Falling Moon by Stephanie Sanchez
- Two Paintings by Stephen Mueller
- Two Drawings by Terry Winters
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Jacki Ochs, Beach, Leningrad, 1985.
Jacki Ochs, Soviet Artists, (left to right) Gustav, unidentified woman, Timur Novokov, Radion Tolya, Sergei Bugayev (Afrika).
Jacki Ochs, Kitchen Cabinets in a Communal Apartment, Leningrad, 1985.
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We took a walk, bus ride, walk, bus ride, walk to an apartment in the middle of Leningrad, up many flights of stairs—no speaking, so the neighbors would not hear a foreign language as we passed their doors.
“I’m interested in subterranean culture that says ‘I will trick you’ to official culture, ‘I will play you.’”
Gabriele Beveridge has quite the eye for sad-looking models in posters—the kind of women who hawk things like hair dye and shampoo.
Originally published in
BOMB 17,
Fall 1986
Spalding Gray, Angela Carter, Gary Indiana, and Joan Mitchell by Cora Chen & Betsy Sussler.
