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THE PHOTO ISSUE 2009
Covers by Terry Richardson and Ryan McGinley. |
 MIROSLAV TICHY
Miroslav Tichy is a reclusive artist who has resided in his hometown of Kyjov, Czech Republic, for most of his life. Born in 1926, he was a painter until the late 1960s, when he started taking photos, mostly of local women sunbathing, using equipment that he b...READ MORE |
 CATHERINE OPIE
One of Catherine Opie’s most famous photographs is Pervert, a self-portrait in which she sits topless, her head encased in a shiny black hood, 46 needles inserted into her skin in neat rows all along her arms, with the word “pervert” freshly carved into...READ MORE |
 STATE-SPONSORED VOYEURISM
Photography from the Czechoslovakian Security Services Archive
We will probably never know the proper names of some of our favorite photographers of the last century. You see, these people were not working for the sake of artistic glory. Instead, they served a totalitarian state apparatus that was not at all unlike the ch...READ MORE |
 “CANDID REICH”
In 1939 the Wehrmacht conscripted a man named Rudolf into the Nazi infantry. They handed him a government-issue camera and sent him off to join the German troops en route to the Eastern front. Rudolf was to document what he saw as his company trudged from Muni...READ MORE |
 “ARCHIVAL GIRLS”
By Richard Kern
EMILY, 2000
“This is really great because it’s got videotapes in it, and the little TV that has the video recorder. It looks so old.” ...READ MORE |
 STEPHEN SHORE
If Stephen Shore were known just for the iconic photos he shot as a teenager at Warhol’s original Silver Factory, he’d probably still get a place in the history of photography. But galvanized by a road trip from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, in 1972, Shore wen...READ MORE |
 HARRI PECCINOTTI
Every photographer who’s made a career out of pressing shutter buttons in front of beautiful women owes a great debt to Harri Peccinotti. He was the first person to consistently capture the sexuality of everyday activities on camera: subversively pleasing sigh...READ MORE |
 THE PERVERTED PHOTOGRAPHY OF TORBJØRN RØDLAND
By Bob Nickas
Although Torbjørn Rødland recalls having a camera from the age of 11, as a teenager his passion was drawing. “After doing caricatures and political cartoons for local newspapers,” he says, “I got fed up with communicating easily decodable ideas through images....READ MORE |
 DOUG BIGGERT: PORTRAITS ON THE ROADSIDE
By Bob Nickas
At the crossroads where we find a Good Samaritan and an amateur photographer are nearly 500 pictures of hitchhikers he picked up along the way, mostly in Northern California between the early 70s and today. Doug Biggert, having hitched himself in the 60s, has ...READ MORE |
 “JAZZ AND BLUES AND BLUES AND JAZZ”
By Val Wilmer
British photographer Val Wilmer had her earliest work published 50 years ago. She started the first women’s-only photo agency, campaigned for women’s and civil rights, and is one of Britain’s leading experts on jazz and blues. Over the years, Val has taken abo...READ MORE |
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