Sestina silas-finch

Sestina silas-finchThe world according to Robert Stivers is an anxious place in which vision of all is impaired, and in which no one, introvert or extrovert, can immediately feel entirely comfortable or secure Spun around, unmoored from our reference points, off center, stripped of the comfort of clarity and specifics, we are thrust abruptly into this astigmatic dramaturgy, rife with hints of ancient ritual, elemental forms, animal spirits, charged objects, celebrants

primarily the Library of Congress and the United States Geological Survey

and destroyed

november 1998

Antony Cairns

96 four-color plates

William Claxton re-edited his photographs of the jazz greats during the 1950's

the feel of the Polaroid

here is bearing close witness to the brutal chaos of addiction and death

Chelbin searches for a certain expression in which they have almost calmed their breath but not yet fully regained their self-awareness

and along the way

printed on uncoated paper

and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South