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The cover of Photographs Not Taken, edited by Will Steacy, Daylight, 2012, 223 pp., $14.95

Close Encounters
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AND NOT
by Linda Yablonsky

Apr. 4, 2011

Will Steacy, Photographs Not Taken, Daylight, 2012, 223 pp., $14.95

Eric Sandweiss, The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey through a Vanishing America, Oxford, 2012, 240 pp., $39.95

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Books Archives

Feb. 21, 2012	Reverend Jen CHICK LIT FOR THE AVANT-GARDE by Walter Robinson Survey Says: You must go out and buy the new memoir by the "sex symbol for the insane," the Lower East Side Art Star known as Reverend Jen.

Feb. 15, 2012	Yayoi Kusama THE LAST WORD by Rachel Corbett A new memoir by the eccentric 82-year-old "polka-dot painter" is a catalogue of surprisingly entertaining mind scraps..

Feb. 6, 2012	New Art Examiner AMERICAN ART CRITICISM LIVES! by Donald Kuspit Every article in The Essential New Art Examiner, the new anthology of Chicago art criticism, is worth the serious read.

Jan. 19, 2012	Detroit: 138 Square Miles RUIN PORN GALORE FOR BOTH RICH AND POOR by Pedro Vélez Considering Julia Reyes Taubman and her massive picture book, Detroit: 138 Square Miles, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Dec. 13, 2011	The Art Prophets CONFIDENCE MEN by Pedro Vélez The profiles in Richard Polsky's The Art Prophets suggest that many visionaries are wolves in sheeps' clothing.

Sept. 19, 2011	Close Encounters THE ART-AND-FASHION CACHET by Linda Yablonsky Art and fashion, via a collaboration among Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte and photographers Catherine Opie and Alec Soth.

Aug. 29, 2011	Close Encounters ISABELLA BLOW, A (SAD) BIOGRAPHY by Linda Yablonsky The tragic tale of London fashionista Isabella Blow, as told by her husband, Detmar Blow.

Aug. 22, 2011	Book Report SOTHEBY'S SWEET SPOTS by Walter Robinson An impressionistic memoir from Sotheby's long-time Impressionist expert Michel Strauss.

July 13, 2011	Art & Psychedelics YES, I AM EXPERIENCED by Charlie Finch Dig the pictures in Ken Johnson's new Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.

July 11, 2011	Carolee Schneemann THE WRESTLING ANGEL by Charlie Finch Correspondence Course, an epistolary history of Carolee Schneeman and her circle, edited by Kristine Stiles.

July 7, 2011	Sasha Grey GREY GARDENS by Pedro Vélez Sex star Sasha Grey's Neü Sex, a book of her own photographs and diary entries.

July 1, 2011	Summer Reading REBELS WITH A CAUSE by James Croak Arabic Graffitti, Totalitarian Art and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp on L.A.'s 1960s art scene.

June 21, 2011	Joan Mitchell (SHE'S NO) LADY PAINTER by Michèle C. Cone A new biography of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell is both scholarly and sensationalistic.

Mar. 8, 2011	L.A. Rising: THE THERE THERE by James Croak Lyn Kienholz' new L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980 (California / International Arts Foundation, 2010)

Feb. 15, 2011	FIND YOUR WAY BACK by Charlie Finch Tony Fitzpatrick's This Train: An Artists's Journal (Firecat Publishing, 2010).

Dec. 6, 2010	ALICE NEEL, THE FIRST TEN PAGES by Charlie Finch Phoebe Hoban’s Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty.

Nov. 16, 2010	STEVE MARTIN, NOVELIST by James Croak Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty (Grand Central Publishing, 2010), 304 pp, $26.99.

June 7, 2010	BOOK REPORT by Pedro Vélez New publications by Beatriz Montevaro, Stefano Pasquini and Cristina Tufiño.

June 7, 2010	BOOK REPORT by Pedro Vélez New publications by Beatriz Montevaro, Stefano Pasquini and Cristina Tufiño.

Apr. 26, 2010	THE SUCCESS OF CASTELLI by Michèle C. Cone Annie Cohen-Solal’s biography Leo and His Circle.

Apr. 5, 2010	HIGGLY PIGGLY by Charlie Finch Whitney Museum curator Larry Rinder’s roman à clef, Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.

Feb. 26, 2010	REALITY CHECK by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Elizabeth Kostova’s new art-world novel and cartoonist R.O Blechman’s memoir.

Dec. 10, 2009	NOTHING IN PARTICULAR by James Croak Vitamin 3D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation.

Nov. 23, 2009	SUPER POWER ART by Donald Kuspit Simon Schama’s The Power of Art.

Nov. 12, 2009	BOOK REPORT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp A tale of two art-world rogues: Léon Bing’s Wild Ride and Dennis Hopper’s Photographs.

Aug. 19, 2009	SABBATH’S DAYS by Joe Fyfe Zak Smith’s We Did Porn (TinHouse Books).

Apr. 6, 2008	BOOK REPORT by Walter Robinson Four new novels bring "chick lit" to art bohemia.

Mar. 26, 2008	Gimme Shelter by James Croak The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture.

Nov. 14, 2008	OPPOSITE SECTS by Robert Moeller Two new books, on Women Collectors and the Circus.

Oct. 27, 2008	PARTY READING by Deborah Ripley The New York Art Book Fair revives an antiquarian field.

Aug. 15, 2008	LOVE AND LOSS by Charlie Finch A review of Peter Schjeldahl’s new collection of art criticism, Let’s See.

July 30, 2008	ANONYMOUS IS A PHOTOGRAPHER by Robert Moeller In three recent books, ordinary people as photographers and as photographic subject.

July 23, 2008	BEHIND THE SCENES by Andrew Decker Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art Worldlays bare the workings of contemporary art.

June 10, 2008	BOOK REPORT by Walter Robinson Art & Today, Great Collectors of Our Time, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Gary Panter, and Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruzalta.

June 5, 2008	BLANK DRAWINGS by Charlie Finch Bob Dylan’s sad doodles.

May 14, 2008	DUCHAMP WON, PICASSO LOST Sculpture Today by Judith Collins.

Oct. 5, 2007	THE LAST SENSUALISTS by Michèle C. Cone Death and eroticism in the new masculinity of the 1920s.

Sept. 7, 2007	DARKNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.

Dec. 20, 2006	BOOK REPORT by Walter Robinson Notable new titles, in time for the gift-giving season.

Nov. 8, 2006	OWNING ART by Jane Finigan Louisa Buck and Judith Greer team up on a new handbook for the contemporary art collector.

Oct. 16, 2006	MURAKAMI’S GUIDE TO SUCCESS by Kay Itoi Japan’s million-dollar man explains how he got rich by appealing to Western taste.

Oct. 4, 2006	CULTURE AND RESISTANCE by P.C. Smith Photojournalist Jonathan Moller documents genocide and reconciliation in Guatemala.

Aug. 18, 2006	RANCIÈRE, FOR DUMMIES by Ben Davis The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.

Aug. 11, 2006	BOOK REPORT by Abraham Orden Essay collections by John Updike and Lawrence Rinder.

July 21, 2006	THE SCENE CHANGES by Peter Plagens Jed Perl’s New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century.

Feb. 22, 2006	PERILS OF PUBLISHING by John A. Walker A memoir of the late British artist John Latham, who destroyed books as his art form.

Dec. 19, 2005	MATISSE AND THE NATIONALISM OF VICHY, 1940-1944 by Michele C. Cone Henri Matisse and his art in Vichy France.

Dec. 8, 2005	Combat Zone by Stephen Maine Art criticism as a contact sport, via Jed Perl’s New Art City.

Sept. 8, 2005	Book Report by Walter Robinson Art in North Korea, snapshots in Nazi Germany, more.

June 21, 2005	Visible Flaws by Ben Davis Art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell's What Do Pictures Want?

January 13, 2005	AMBLING FAMILY by Brian Riley Poet Bob Holman collaborates with Chuck Close.

January 11, 2005	BOOK REPORT by Nicole Davis Ten new art books from presses large and small.

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