Hiroh Kikai

Hiroh Kikai's Asakusa Portraits includes a lot of excellent portrait work and it is definitely the best photo book I have picked up in a while. The work reminds me a lot of Diane Arbus. I can not wait for the exhibition to make its way to California. Here is an interview over at Lens Culture. This is A Man with Four Watches 1987.

Robert Frank at MOCA

I highly recommend the Robert Frank exhibition that is up now at MOCA in L.A. This is a great opportunity to see the complete series of 83 photographs that were apart of his The Americans. Not to be missed.

Dead Malls

Dixie Square Mall, 2008 from Dark Stores, Ghost Boxes, and Dead Malls by Brian Ulrich. Here is a link to the Brian Ulrich interview we did not get a chance to finish today. You can see several images of his new series here.

Mitch Epstein

Here is a link to the "American Power: What’s Really at Risk?" talk that Mitch Epstein did at the Architecture League of NY.

Avedon at SDMA

This summer is a great opportunity to see Richard Avedon's The Family at the San Diego Museum of Art. This series , which Rolling Stone commissioned him to do in 1976, consist of portraits of the power elite in the United States during the bicentennial presidential election. This is the spread of the sharp looking Ralph Nadar and U.S. Conresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

Lynch, Dangermouse and Sparklehorse

This is an image from new photo work up this month at Michael Kohn Gallery by David Lynch . It is a multimedia installation in collaboration with new music from Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse. read on

MFA Thesis Exhibition

Stop by the University Art Gallery at UCSD this evening from 6-8:30 for the opening reception for the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition. I have a new work up that I have been collaborating on with the amazing James Enos.