I have a theory: we are moving into a post-literate society. As the digital age descends, we usher in a new vocabulary of visual iconography, photographs, typefaces, books, films, posters,…
Author miss-rosen
United Photo Industries is a labor of love: love for the photograph and its ability to convey a complex array of emotions and ideas in a single, silent frame. Founders…
The Republic of Niger, the largest nation in West Africa, ranked 186 of 187 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index for 2011. With over 80 percent of its land…
For the past five years, VII Photo Agency has operated a gallery in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn. Located one block from the waterfront, VII Gallery stands on the corner…
The feminine ideal: she is an industry unto herself, a vision of beauty held above all, as a thing to aspire towards, or to have and to hold. She exists…
The South Bronx was given a shoddy reputation some four decades ago after a governmental policy of “benign neglect” enabled landlords to practice arson with impunity, thus destroying a neighborhood…
When the San Francisco punk scene took off in 1976, Jim Jocoy dropped out of UC Santa Cruz, got a job at a copy store, and went to punk clubs…
I believe that death is not the end, but a new beginning. It is an opportunity for us to reflect on life and discover its deeper meaning. Death appears to…
Ruins. Empty hollow shells of what once was. Disarray, deshabille, the beautiful poetry of decay. Buildings that once stood, fully functional, making themselves useful to the people that created them…
Punk Passage: A Tragicomic Romp Thru the Hardcore Axis of the SF/LA Punk Scene 1977–1981 is Ruby Ray’s first book, as DIY as anything she has ever done. Produced exclusively…