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IT'S A PHOTO ISSUE!

Cover still-life by Roe Ethridge

For our 9th annual Photo Issue we decided to fuck it all to hell and make a magazine devoted exclusively to still-life photography. We got the 94 photographers from all over the world to give us their personal best and favorite still life (except for the dead photographers like Mapplethorpe and Weston, for whom we consulted a wide range of reputable psychics and juju men to determine which photos they would want us to use. Special thanks Swami Boneplug, Nana Gbonkbonk). What we wound up with is more like a sophisticated art book than an internet thing: A meditation on the contemporary state of still-life photography, if you will. A "modern take" on an art form as old as the caveman.

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So who's in the issue? There are photographers young and old, well-known and up-n-coming, alive and dead--all spanning the globe from Japan to Australia to South Africa to Greece. The only country out of Vice's 22 international editions who didn't contribute anything was Vice Bulgaria, but you've got to cut them some slack for being a bit slow on the uptake—they still listen to Massive Attack for Christ's sake.

As far as fancy names go, we've got Wolfgang Tillmans--perhaps the most influential contemporary master of still life photography--alongside Edward Weston--perhaps the most important still life photographer ever. Other historical wizards of the form include Berenice Abbott, Paul Outerbridge Jr., Margeret Watkins, Baron Adolph de Meyer, and Robert Mapplethorpe—all of em in here. We also got Eileen Myles (renowned poet and author of one of our all-time favorite books, Chelsea Girls) to write an introductory essay about still lifes and beginning tomorrow we'll be running daily interviews with a select handful of contributors from the issue.

More names! Spike Jonze, David Lynch, Juergen Teller, Ryan McGinley, Terry Richardson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Stephen Shore… look we're not going to do the whole thing. Just get in there and start enjoying you some photos.

Updated: FINE, here's the full list

Berenice Abbott

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Nobuyoshi Araki

,

David Armstrong

,

Tim Barber

,

Patterson Beckwith

,

Harry Benson

,

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Annika Berglund

,

Tanyth Berkeley

,

Colby Bird

,

Angela Boatwright

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Melanie Bonajo

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Moyra Davey

,

Baron Adolph de Meyer

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Dennis Duijnhouwer

,

Jeanne Dunning

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Per Englund

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Charlie Engman

,

JH Engström

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Roe Ethridge

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Martin Fengel

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Naomi Fisher

,

Seth Fluker

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Vito Fun

,

Nick Gazin

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Stuart Griffiths

,

Jerry Hsu

,

Spike Jonze

,

Richard Kern

,

Sandy Kim

,

Carl Kleiner

,

Les Krims

,

Justine Kurland

,

Bruce LaBruce

,

Maggie Lee

,

Hanna Liden

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David Lynch

,

Milos Mali

,

Jim Mangan

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Robert Mapplethorpe

,

Ari Marcopoulos

,

Mirabelle Marden

,

Stacey Mark

,

Ryan McGinley

,

Sam McPheeters

,

Annabel Mehran

,

Marilyn Minter

,

Slava Mogutin

,

Sophie Mörner

,

Santiago Mostyn

,

Aliya Naumoff

,

Holger Niehaus

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Keiichi Nitta

,

Jason Nocito

,

Patrick O'

Dell,

Jeanine Oleson

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Felipe Oliveira

,

Catherine Opie

,

Paul Outerbridge Jr.

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Martin Parr

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Anders Petersen

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Walter Pfeiffer

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Jack Pierson

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Carly Rabalais

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Ben Rayner

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Shawn Records

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Terry Richardson

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Ringl+Pit

,

Ben Ritter

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Luiza Sá

,

Lele Saveri

,

David Benjamin Sherry

,

Kishin Shinoyama

,

Sunny Shokrae

,

Stephen Shore

,

Sandy Skoglund

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Socrates Socratous

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Katarina Šoškić

,

Daliah Spiegel

,

Spyros Staveris

,

A.L. Steiner

,

Peter Sutherland

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Jamie Lee Curtis Taete

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Juergen Teller

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Ed Templeton

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Wolfgang Tillmans

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Tomokaflex

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Jaimie Warren

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Margaret Watkins

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Gavin Watson

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Edward Weston

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Jess Williamson

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iO Tillett Wright

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Dale Yudelman

, and

Nick Zinner

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