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Album
Album
February 1970-January 1971
(12 issues; missing #4 & #8)
Album was published in London from 1970 to 1971. Its editor was Bill Jay.
It was a magazine of photography’s incursions.
Every page is black and white. No ornament, austere blocks of text. The effect is like drawing a curtain, or dimming the lights in a theater, only without the direction dictated by film, leaving you free to wander.
There are no advertisements.
Its concern was the actuality of practice. Old essays followed new talents in a critical space where “art photography” was as ludicrous a term as “art painting,” and what appears easy and available as a technology is, like any artistic practice, much more fugitive and essential.
Duane Michals, Issue #7
Issue #1
from “On Being a Radical Photographer,” an interview with Blankfort, Issue #1
W. Eugene Smith, “Black Man’s Battleground,” Issue #2
from Issue #2
W. Eugene Smith, “Mailbox,” Ku Klux Klan series, Issue #2
from Press Cuttings, Issue #2
from Quotes, Issue #1
Gordon Bennett, “San Francisco,” Issue #11
from Opinions, Issue #1
Bill Brandt, “Friar’s Bay,” Issue #1
from Opinions, Issue #7
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, “Luz restrida,” Issue #9
from John Thomson’s “Illustrations of China and its People,” Issue #9
George N. Barnard, official photographer to Sherman’s Campaign, Issue #7
Harvey Himelfarb, from the Visual Dialogue Foundation portfolio, “Premonitions of a Tyranny of Culture,” Issue #10
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