A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Useless Reportage: Notes on Helen Levitt’s In the Street
“If in the film the streets seem to be mostly battleground, her photographs construe it more as a theatre. Levitt was after the epiphanic universal that might emerge from the quotidian.”
Snake Journey
A beautiful meditation on personal and communal memory, art, and an unfathomable landscape from poet Michael Ladd.
Repetition, Resistance, and Remembering in the Prints of Elizabeth Catlett
“Through appropriation, the vitality of Black history, literature, and poetry—and the importance of preserving and propagating this legacy—are interwoven into Catlett’s imagery, serving as both an expression of resilience and a force…
The Ghost in White: Edo Horror and the Birth of Sadako
In the age of endlessly reproducible digital images, the deeper metaphor feels even more familiar:
The haunted image no longer needs a well, a cassette, or even a television. It only needs…
Three Stops
“The cemetery stood on an island. People said that one day the island would disappear beneath the water. My father wanted to record the place before that happened. So we began keeping…
Fiction: Moving Day
The sixth trip up the stairs I see them. Sometimes you can go the whole day without seeing anyone, and I thought it was going to be like that. Little did I…
Raven Season: Karen Clarkson
“The mischievous Raven existed at that time because he always had.”
The Apocalyptic Image
I use the term here deliberately to recover this older semantic association with disclosure, rather than using it in the narrower modern sense of apocalyptic cinema as a genre concerned primarily with…
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