I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
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Li Young Lee
Untitled Photograph by Barbara Ess
- Sally Potter by Shari Frilot
- Sally Gall and April Gornik
- Walter Mosley by Thulani Davis
- Rosanne Cash by David Byrne
- Melanie Rae Thon by Caryl Phillips
- Bruce Wagner by Hillary Johnson
- Buzz Spector by David Pagel
- Luciano Perna by David Pagel
- Pae White by David Pagel
- David Baerwald by Lynn Geller
- Darrell Larson by Rob Sullivan
- Sadie Benning by Linda Yablonsky
Interviews
- Four Poems by Gigi Marks
- Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten
- Four Stories by Benjamin Weissman
- The Hemisphere: Kuchuk Hanem by Kimiko Hahn
- Sister by Jim Lewis
- The White Butterfly by David Rattray
- South Brooklyn Casket Company by Klaus Kertess
- In a Country of Mothers by A.M. Homes
- Luck by Jim Krusoe
First Proof
- Two Photographs by Sally Gall
- Untitled Photograph by Barbara Ess
- For David Rattray by Charles Henri Ford
- Three Drawings by Jiri Georg Dokoupil
- Self Portraits by Kiki Smith
- Two Photographs by Linda Connor
- Two Photographs by Lynn Davis
- Two Photographs by Lynn Geesaman
- Two Photographs by Mark Klett
- So On by Suzanne McClelland
- David Greig Rattray, 1936–1993 by Betsy Sussler
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Barbara Ess, Untitled, 1991, monochrome color photograph, 11 × 14 inches. Courtesy of Curt Marcus Gallery.
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Tom Slaughter’s paintings have a very specific effect. Like Brazilian music, as in Jobim, or Caetano Veloso, they are instantly pleasing.
Originally published in
BOMB 44,
Summer 1993
Featuring interviews with Sally Gall & April Gornik, Roseanne Cash, Walter Mosley, Sally Potter, Luciano Perna, Melanie Rae Thon, Sadie Benning, David Baerwald, Pae White, Bruce Wagner, Darrel Larson, and Buzz Spector.
