Impressions From Texas

by Jonathan Blaustein When I came home and announced I like Texas, my father looked as if I’d declared myself Nazi. The shock was real, even if the anger was feigned. Negative impressions of Texas run deep here in New Mexico, as we encounter the flashier, private-tour-bus-driving Texan tourists each summer. Like any bias, my […]

Discarded: Anthony Hernandez at the Amon Carter Museum

by Jonathan Blaustein On my last night in Texas, I stayed with an old friend, outside Austin. Jeff, who’s my age, is one of the few people I’ve known my whole life. (Beyond family, of course.) We hadn’t seen each other in 12 years, and things have been difficult for him since then. But he […]

This Week In Photography Books: Brian David Stevens

by Jonathan Blaustein I live in a bubble. (At least it feels that way.) Taos is an insular place, and it holds on to its own. It takes a great deal of energy to leave, as the nearest towns are miles and miles in every direction. It feels very much like an island in the […]

This Week In Photography Books: Haley Morris-Cafiero

by Jonathan Blaustein I used to be overweight as a kid. Not always, but often. I would gain and lose weight, in phases, but I never had a perfect body. I still don’t. Hell, at my wedding, I must have weighed 20 pounds more than I do now, courtesy of Tony’s Pizza in East Williamsburg, […]

This Week In Photography Books: Maud Sulter

by Jonathan Blaustein I have a lot of opinions. As I make my living as a columnist, (along with many other jobs,) it helps to have strong convictions. I share them each week, to entertain you, but also to discuss important ideas in digestible bits. Occasionally, when you throw your opinions out there into the […]