by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
I was getting burned out, more and more distant from photography itself, despite working on photography-related things all week long. When we decided to do a show of my nuclear weapons images at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and…
At the last possible minute, I decided to apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship to support my American Nukes project. It was a scramble to get it done in time, and I only just made it. The Guggenheim is a prestigious…
Mike Mandel doesn’t know it yet, but his new book, MYSELF: Timed Exposures, is a Turing Test. On the cover of the book is an image of several people standing in what appears to be an elevator. There’s a blonde…
My American Nukes: Photographs and Texts by Darin Boville show is up until July 5th–you have plenty of time to go! It’s at the Nuclear Museum, in Albuquerque, New Mexico (its formal name is the National Museum of Nuclear History…
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before (which sort of amazes me) but for the past three years I’ve been working on a major photo project on nuclear weapons. Road-tripping across the United States, covering a total of 25,000…
Jim Goldberg’s new book, Coming and Going, is a mess. It’s a mess of photographs, a mess of handwritten text, of notes, letters, a mess of collages of photographs often hundreds of images to a page, a mess of people…
Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed…
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When I post about my photo projects it all comes out nice and neat, one project following another, all neatly lined up and each progressing from milestone to milestone as if I have some spreadsheet charting each day’s goals and…
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