Meanwhile #171
This week’s digest of oblongular visual treats.
Although I’ve long known him as an actor and skater, it had completely passed me by that Jason Lee is also a photographer. Looking through his site, I’m particularly taken by the work from his book A Plain View, an ongoing documentation of America on 4x5 colour film. The sun-bleached and unpopulated landscapes give the series an eery only-just-post-apocalyptic vibe.
This popped up on my Pinterest the other day – Patricia Arquette photographed by Suzanne Tenner on the set of David Lynch’s Lost Highway, 1997. Somewhere between Marilyn Monroe and Gwen Stefani. Never been a huge Lynch fan, so I’ve never watched this one … but maybe this one picture will convince me to take the leap.
I’m absolutely furious at the universe for not given me an opportunity to see the Evelyn Hofer retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery before it closes next month, but I’m definitely clearing space on my bookshelf for this recent monograph, Eyes on the City, which focuses on the photobooks Hofer published throughout the sixties, each a snapshot of a different American or European city.
Among works by other photographers, ºCLAIRbyKahn has a lovely collection of images by Magnum alumni Erich Hartmann, including this one of a particularly wet and windy New York City in 1967.
Currently playing on loop in my studio, Billie Eilish’s musical contribution to the Barbie movie, What Was I Made For? The gorgeously grainy single sleeve (if it was even a physical release … how do these things work these days?) is an added delight; a little bit Blow Up, a little bit Hitchcock, somehow still very Barbie.