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volume 4 (5.2005-6.2005)

Rephotographing Atget

Christopher Rauschenberg retraced Eugene Atget's steps in and around Paris 100 years later. The results are remarkable photo pairs, plus some new discoveries.

Black Maps: Terminal Mirage

David Maisel has been documenting environmentally impacted landscapes, as seen from the air, for more than 20 years. The large-format unaltered photographs reveal worlds that are alien, surreal, terrifying and beautiful. He talks about his work in a thought-provoking audio interview.

Nomadic Mongolia

Trekking around the Gobi Desert with her 4 x 5 view camera, photographer Elaine Ling documents the modern/ancient lifestyles of nomadic people in Mongolia.

Road Work

Keith Johnson hits the road with his Hasselblad and discovers some delightfully quirky senses of human style in America.

The Wall

Photojournalist Morgan Hagar reports from the 400-mile concrete and electrified wire wall that separates Palestine and Israel.

Sylvia Plachy

One of the most important photojournalists and street photographers of our time talks about her working methods, influences, color photography and more.

Blandscapes

East Coast photographer
Martin Buday finds color, geometry and humor in urban landscapes.

Breath: Floral Photograms
Roxanne Worthington reveals yet another delicate side of flowers by pressing them in glass and projecting them directly onto photographic paper.

Snapshot: Photo-London 2005

Featuring primarily the work of artists from the UK and Europe, Photo-London serves as a highly-selective snapshot of the best photography by contemporary artists.

Audio Archives

David Maisel interview
25 minutes

Sylvia Plachy lecture
8 minutes

Christopher
Rauschenberg
interview
14 minutes

Archives

volume 3 (2.2005-4.2005)

Photographer Jeff Cowen creates movement and intensity with collage, scale, and striking subject matter. In an audio interview, he talks about his process and his influences

Hands Face

Toronto photographer Adam Krawesky took to the streets and asked strangers to pose for him — by covering their faces.

John Szarkowski Photographs
A look at old and new photographs made by the legendary curator and critic

Architecture of Density
Photographer Michael Wolf creates highly detailed large-scale views of high-rise structures that are homes to millions in modern Hong Kong.

Sally Mann spoke at a benefit fundraiser for San Francisco's PhotoAlliance, where she showed and discussed her current work.

Reportage from Sudan

by photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve

Artiseverywhere:

20 top pics from the poetic photoblog of Jay Morrison

Exhuming Mass Graves
A photo-essay from Guatemala by photojournalist Victor Blue

Afterwar

Photographer Lori Grinker documents the physical and psychological wounds of war veterans from World War I to the war in Iraq.

Reflecting Buddha
Highlights from a
photo exhibit to benefit the
International Buddhist Film Festival

Audio Archives

Interview with Hong Kong photographer
Michael Wolf
11 minutes

Interview with
Paris-based photographer Jeff Cowen
5 minutes

Psychedelic Furs concert photos with soundtrack
3 minutes

Archives
volume 2 (12.2004-1.2005)

	Temporary Discomfort Photographs and interview with the Swiss photographer Jules Spinatsch

	René Burri The legendary Magnum photographer publishes a spectacular 50-year retrospective book, and talks with us about new projects, color photography, the digital age, and more.

	Diary Nr. 1 A self-published visual meditation on life and death in Holland Mischa Keijser

	Thomas Robinson Photographs and a personal essay about being down and out in NYC

	Photo Party West Coast gritty photo magazine Hamburger Eyes hosts a wild opening in San Francisco

	Longing and Belonging The eternal life of nudists Photographs and an interview with photographer Mona Kuhn

	Staging Happiness An examination of Soviet-era photo propaganda Nailya Alexander

	Photo LA 2005 Some of the work that was exhibited at this international photography event

	Color-coded book store Installation by Chris Cobb

	Ma Poupée Japonaise Multicultural artist, Mario A, creates a living doll in a year-long photo project

Audio Archives

Interview with
Swiss photographer
Jules Spinatsch
10 minutes

Magnum photographer René Burri
5 minutes

Brazilian photographer Mona Kuhn
13 minutes

Conceptual photographer Mario A
5 minutes

Dutch photographer Mischa Keijser
5 minutes

Essay

The philosopher and
the trickster:
Daido Moriyama and
Nobuyoshi Araki
by Tracy Oborn

Archives
volume I (4.2004-11.2004)

	Alexey Titarenko Photographs and interview with the Russian photographer

	Germans with their Weapons Portraits by Frank Rothe, Berlin

	Chris McCaw 7" x 17" platinum contact prints for the 21st century

	Stuck by the Mississippi Large format details of marginal living in the Midwest. Photographs by Alec Soth

	Greg Constantine Quiet moments from modern-day Tokyo

	What's the Buzz? Previews from Paris Photo 2004 November 10-14, 2004

	Rosie's Coffee Van Melbourne's homeless meet for late-night coffee and conversation Photographs by Tony Reddrop

More Lens Culture Archives:

Volumes 11, 12, 13

Volumes 8, 9 10

Volumes 5, 6, 7

	Call of the Sirens Air Raid Sirens of Los Angeles Words and Images by Garret Izumi

	Still Subjects in a Blur of Motion Photographs by Alfred Tom

	Lost Property Office Series by Dmitri Poltavski Chita, Russia

Audio Archives

Interview with
Russian photographer
Alexey Titarenko
12 minutes

Interview with
American photographer Chris McCaw
10 minutes

Multimedia Experiments

Window Seat
Meditation while Flying
by Jim Casper
3 minutes

Inspiration

Brief quotes from favorite photographers