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•Prints and a Conversation

I didn’t appreciate the Gulf Coast until I had some distance from it. For the brief time that I lived away from the South, I missed it in a far more visceral sense than just being absent.

Art – Issue 20

Pictures of Music: Photographs from the Collection of Sarah Bryan

Sarah Bryan

A folklorist traces the photographic history of Americans’ musical identity.

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art credits Cover photograph © Tõnu Tunnel; page 7 album art courtesy of Music Maker Foundation; pages 16–17 © Kaushik Narasimhan, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr; page 40 © Romana Klee, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Flickr; page 50 © Liz…

Art – Issue 19

•A Resourceful Woman

Emily Louise Smith & Jeff Sharlet

An Instagram Essay

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A Conversation with Kirsten Sims

Emily Louise Smith

Emily Louise Smith: The energetic style and colors of your paintings convey whimsy and humor—I think of those exaggerated, long-limbed characters—and yet some also hint at misfortune. Your work seems both playful and ominous. Kirsten Sims: Playful and ominous,

Art – Issue 16

A Conversation with Andreas Franke on The Sinking World

Andreas Franke

EMILY LOUISE SMITH: Describe the origin of The Sinking World. ANDREAS FRANKE: In search of a new diving challenge a few years ago, I planned to photograph the Baron Gautsch, a former Austrian passenger ship that sank ninety-nine years ago…

Art – Issue 13

Photographs and a Conversation

Harry Taylor

Emily Louise Smith: Why tintypes? Harry Taylor: Historic processes create one-of-a-kind artifacts. At a recent show, someone of obvious culture and age grabbed me by the arm and said, “This is amazing, where did you find them?” I replied,

Creatures of the Order Anura