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Amy Touchette | “Shoot the Arrow,” GUP Magazine

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From GUP Magazine‘s feature on Amy Touchette’s series “Shoot the Arrow”:

Fascinated by the larger-than-life burlesque dancer, The World Famous *BOB*, New York-based photographer Amy Touchette immersed herself into *BOB*’s world for four years. The resulting series, “Shoot the Arrow,” is a documentary work on her electric life, seen in grainy black and white film photographs that play like a memory. Touchette disappears into her role as an observer, letting *BOB*’s life and her experiences take centre stage.

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Michael Crouser | “Photo of the Day,” PDN

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From the post at PDN Photo of the Day:

Michael Crouser spent more than a decade making the photographs in Mountain Ranch, his new book published recently by University of Texas Press. In it, Crouser documents life on family ranches in northwest Colorado, focusing on the seasonal cycle of raising cattle, on the men and women who do this work and the community they form, and on the breathtaking beauty of the natural environment.

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Jesse Burke | “The Daily Edit,” aPhotoEditor

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From Heidi Volpe’s interview with Jesse Burke for aPhotoEditor:

[HV]: What do you feel is your particular gift as an artist and when did you realize this?

[JB]: Ultimately, I think my strength is in storytelling. Any project I approach, whether personal or commissioned, I try my damnedest to tell the whole story. This originates from my time at RISD attending graduate school. I started making work that truly explored a given concept from micro to macro. I was shooting landscapes, portraits, and still lifes that all spoke a common language and told a single story. Once I finished my thesis project, “Intertidal,” I realized that this methodology was working for me and I kept at it.

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Michael Crouser | “‘Mountain Ranch’ Life,” Colorado Public Radio

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From Shanna Lewis’s review of “Mountain Ranch” by Michael Crouser for Colorado Public Radio:

You can almost smell the scent of well worn leather in the black and white image of a cowboy swinging onto a moving horse on the cover of Minneapolis photographer Michael Crouser’s new book, “Mountain Ranch.” This collection of photos made at ranches southwest of Steamboat Springs feels timeless. Crouser shows the constancy of ranch life and the hard work and persistence of the people who do it. He doesn’t shy away from the blood, mud and struggles, while he also shows the beauty of the environment, the harsh weather and the rancher’s connections with the land and animals.

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“Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism,” Vice

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From Muri Assunção’s review of ClampArt’s exhibition “Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism” for Vice:

“People who lived through that epidemic experienced in a lot of ways the same kind of trauma that people experience during war times, and it takes decades for people to be able to address that,” Greg Ellis told me. Ellis is the curator of “Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism,” currently on view at ClampArt gallery in Chelsea. After the epidemic began claiming the lives of those around him in the 80s, he began receiving and collecting archival material from his friends, many of them artists and activists. The show is intended to “shape the discussion for the history of what AIDS activism is,” and illustrate interconnected relationships among major artists at the time—specifically in the East Village—and the collaborative spirit that existed among them.

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“Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism,” Widewalls

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From Elena Martinique’s review of the exhibition “Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism” for Widewalls:

Ever since the beginning of the 1980s, AIDS has become an increasingly present phenomenon, entering the work of many American artists in a myriad of ways and transforming the world of contemporary art significantly. Many of them have sought immediate change in combating the crisis.

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Michael Crouser | “Mountain Ranch,” Wall Street International

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From the post at Wall Street International:

Michael Crouser was born in 1962 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from Saint John’s University (Collegeville, MN) in 1985. He began making photographs in earnest at the age of fourteen, when he set up a darkroom in his parents’ basement. After college he worked for several years in various Minneapolis commercial photography studios as an assistant, before setting out on his own.

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