David Seidner, Adelle Lutz, 1986.
David Seidner, Caroline Ellen, 1986.
Two photographs, Untitled and Dayton Advertisement by Blumenfeld.
Ville Kumpulainen is a photographer living and working in Helsinki, Finland. In his new book, Out of Sight (Hatje Cantz, 2017), Kumpulainen manipulates archival images to solidify the tenuous connection between present and past, attempting to fill the gaps left between himself and his history.
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Christopher Durang, Duane Michals by David Seidner, Steve Erickson, and Mona Simpson.
I don’t think an artist and a shaman actually have that much difference if we go back, way back, in time. Today, it’s just gotten so wrapped up in intellectual stuff that we’ve gotten far away from a basic truth about what artists do in the world.
Lucy Dodd
