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Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera October 21, 2024
Ralph Ellison’s papers in the Library of Congress include hundreds of photographs that the novelist took over many years, mostly as a serious amateur and also, for a brief period in the late 1940s, as an aspiring professional. They range from the str...
Radiohead’s Behind-The-Scenes Photos October 18, 2024
Colin Greenwood plays bass in one of the world’s most acclaimed bands, but he doesn’t view himself as a particularly public figure. In some ways, he retreats even further from the public eye in his new book, a collection of photographs called “How to...
My Brother, Eddie Van Halen October 16, 2024
AFTER HIS BROTHER DIED, Alex Van Halen fell apart. He can prove it. There’s photographic evidence right here on his phone, which also happens to be a repository of unheard, unfinished Van Halen songs. Spend the day with him, and he might play a few. ...
What Was Indie Sleaze? October 03, 2024
Mark Fisher was right, I thought for the 400th time this August. “The feeling of belatedness, of living after the gold rush, is as omnipresent as it is disavowed,” the theorist wrote in 2013, regarding the futureless inertia of 21st century culture, ...
