Stacy J. Platt

Sophie Calle is not an artist, but an editor...what she practices is an edit without questions, without premise, only formula. She calls the premise for her projects her ideas, says that she is full of ideas, but Ideas they are not; these are parlor questions. She frames herself through the referenc

i have a friend that works for a prestigious photography gallery in manhattan.  whenever we get together, i am regaled with tales of the unchecked purchasing power of the bourgeoisie, the wheelings-and-dealings of

© stacy oborn, 2008 resurrection. so i've been a long time away from writing, and in this and many other ways, a long time away from myself. in the interim

does one learn aesthetics or does aesthetics learn you? meaning: is aesthetics a panoply of ideas and concerns one encounters in a ripe and meaningful fashion, something to add to an artistic arsenal that will further give shape and weight to work made--or is it a different kind of encounter, a shoc

beyond my first flush of shock and thinking that this is a photograph i'd never imagined she'd make, i have come instead to see that this image is really a prelude to all the other photographs that i have come to know as arbus's--touching, vulnerable, a little skewed--as if she made this one imprint