The Photo Issue 2009
State-Sponsored Voyeurism
We will probably never know the proper names of some of our favorite photographers of the last century. You see, these people were not working for the sake of artistic glory. Instead, they served a totalitarian state apparatus.
Catherine Opie
That was the 90s, when identity politics were new and exciting and when Catherine Opie was pretty much the official documentary photographer of the lesbian/gay/transgender/BDSM/radical-performance-art community.
Jazz and Blues and Blues and Jazz
British photographer Val Wilmer had her earliest work published 50 years ago. She started the first women’s-only photo agency, campaigned for women’s and civil rights, and is one of Britain’s leading experts on jazz and blues.
“now That You Are Mine”
Photos By TRINE SØNDERGAARD (www.trinesondergaard.com) Courtesy MARTIN ASBÆK GALLERY (www.martinasbaek.com)  ...
Archival Girls
EMILY, 2000 “This is really great because it’s got videotapes in it, and the little TV that has the video recorder. It looks so old.”
Doug Biggert: Portraits On The Roadside
At the crossroads where we find a Good Samaritan and an amateur photographer are nearly 500 pictures of hitchhikers he picked up along the way, mostly in Northern California between the early 70s and today.