by Mike Zastre | May 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Used books FTW: I follow several local used-book stores on Instagram, and a week or so ago caught a pic of some titles on a shelf. Lo and behold the shelf held a few photo books, one of which had “Photography and Architecture” on the spine. To make a long...
by Mike Zastre | Jan 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is my third – and last – quote calendar. I’ve set aside my practice in the past two years’ editions of stating a profession or vocation with the name of each person quoted. Labels can be such damnable things! January: Bill Brandt (1904 – 1983) “It is...
by Mike Zastre | Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Go. If you are at all interested in the intersection of art and photography, you must go. To see the show. That is: Cindy Sherman at the Vancouver Art Gallery (until March 8, 2020). This is the same show that was at the National Portrait Gallery in London earlier this...
by Mike Zastre | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Of the many unexpected pleasures and discoveries from my July trip to Aurora NY, one occurred as the result of a lake-cruise chat with a fellow student also at the Wells College book-arts summer institute. She started to talk about J.J. Lankes (1884-1960) of whom I...
by Mike Zastre | Oct 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was a month of significant passings in the world of photography. First news of Robert Frank (+ September 9), then news of Fred Herzog (+ September 9, too). There were other photographers who departed in the month, people who made images at the edges of my vision,...
