The Art of Ruin OOP and Hilton Als

and Hilton Als

"Shot in 1974 with a Sony Porta-Pak

I uncovered my own feelings of failure

Text by Judith Freeman

I Want to Take Picture features black-and-white images which Burke shot during several trips through Southeast Asia in the early 1980s

The Art of Ruin OOP and Hilton AlsIn his new monograph, The Art of Ruin, Robert Stivers explores the distances that keep memory strange and uninhabitable. The objects presented in this series are, to some extent, recognizable. But the psychic experience the artist infuses seamlessly into these photographs, transforms themevoking both a sense of loss and recovery. The result is a richly textured and nuanced body of photographs examining the nature of ruin. twin palms publishers january