We got our hands on a copy of the Steidl 2008 re-issue of Robert Frank’s classic photo portrait of post-war USA, and we give you This, Upon Reading The Americans.
“I realized that in that half hour under ether I had served God more distinctly and purely than I had ever done in my life before, or than I am capable of desiring to do.”
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With a distinct bouquet of gasoline fumes and burnt rubber, these Robt. Williams’ automobile related oil paintings will chase you down like ethnographic hallucinations, vibrantly artistic, generously fantastic.
We have put together a gallery with some of photographer Patricio Crooker’s images from the Bolivian Lucha Libre scene. Yes, you read that correctly … Bolivian Lucha Libre!

Photo:Juliana Beasley
“It is the anonymous nature of the lapdance that allows for such closeness between strangers. The lapdance becomes a metaphor for this human contradiction: the deep desire for intimacy, yet the simultaneous fear of it.”
Photographer Juliana Beasley worked eight years as a professional nude dancer, using her camera to document the clubs she worked in, her co-workers, and the customers.
Here are some of her photos.
“American Ethnography is a stranger in a 1972 Riviera, sunburst yellow banged up and dirty, raving coffee madness cruising Main Street of the quiet desert town at 15 miles an hour …”

Today we’re digging Bird and Diz by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
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