Bossa Nova // An Emotional Journey // Un Viaje Emocional
Bossa nova, a term coined under obscure circumstances in 1958, became so popular it was used by salesmen and musicians of all stripes. It just seemed a hip name for things. […]
Bossa nova, a term coined under obscure circumstances in 1958, became so popular it was used by salesmen and musicians of all stripes. It just seemed a hip name for things. […]
If I didn’t have photography,” Nobuyoshi Araki has said, “I’d have absolutely nothing. My life is all about photography, and so life is itself photography.” Araki’s art overflows with life, […]
Here is one part of the future that can be predicted: cities are where the world’s population is going to be increasingly concentrated, half now, about three quarters by 2050. […]
David LaChapelle is running late. Though the term “running” doesn’t quite describe it. “He’s sleeping,” says one of LaChapelle’s assistants, peering at me languidly through those ironic-retro spectacles that seem […]
Between the word “public” and the word “intellectual” there falls, or ought to fall, a shadow. The life of the cultivated mind should be private, reticent, discreet: Most of its […]
Remember Tank Man? The unknown Chinese protester who stalled a line of armored vehicles during the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square? What he was to those tanks, the artist-provocateur Ai […]
William Albert Allard came to a conclusion about life and photography many years ago. The only way to keep producing exceptional work is to carefully select the work you do. […]
It used to be that Terrence Malick moved at merely geological speed from one project to the next. But just two years after the last film, his colossal, and colossally divisive The Tree of […]
Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, and in the years since has become one of architecture’s most potent forces. Before designing his first building at the […]
It’s difficult to explain to some folks why I’ve ended up living on what is essentially a hurricane-prone sandbar. But I’ve been coming down to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, often referred […]