This Week In Photography Books: Christine Osinski

by Jonathan Blaustein My cousin had a baby yesterday. Or, I should say, his wife did. I think he was at the bar, drinking, through much of the affair. (At least, that’s what I saw on Facebook.) Certain things make you feel old, and they’re never what you expect. Cousin Kenny becoming a father is […]

This Week In Photography Books: Sally Mann

by Jonathan Blaustein I write about my kids all the time. You know this. (You, the faceless crowd of e-readers.) I remember in the Summer of 2012, when my daughter was born, I shared my confusion about changing her first diaper. How do you deal with a tiny vajayjay? Are you gentle, like handling a […]

This Week In Photography Books: Melissa Ann Pinney

by Jonathan Blaustein I got yelled at on Monday. (It was expected, but unpleasant.) Sometimes, even when you know what’s coming, you still can’t get out of the way. We’d just changed the hours of our art labs at UNM-Taos, and as the Chair of the Fine Arts Department, a low-level manager in an unwieldy […]

This Week In Photography Books: MBLCK

by Jonathan Blaustein Code. Such a simple word. Four letters. Two vowels. Two consonants. Well balanced. Such a basic word, for such a complicated concept. Even now, as I type these clean, black letters on the bright white Retina display, I’m aware they’re not as they appear. I see letters, yes, but underneath the alphabetic […]

This Week In Photography Books: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman

by Jonathan Blaustein The gorilla stench clings to my nostril hairs, like Pigpen’s fog. Surely, I can’t still smell the gorillas? But my nose crinkles just the same. I saw those gorillas in the Albuquerque Zoo on Sunday morning. We took the kids down to the “big” city, (irony intended) as when you raise your […]