Thought Pieces

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S1 Ep 6: Lou Stoppard reads from 'Shirley Baker' Nov 01, 2021

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In Ep.6 of Thought Pieces, writer, editor and curator Lou Stoppard discusses the incredible – and much overlooked – work of Shirley Baker, considering her place in the male-dominated history of photography, together with the compassionate and attentive ways in which she captured everyday life in Salford, London and beyond.

S1 Ep 5: Ben Lerner reads 'The Rose' & 'The Voice' Oct 24, 2021

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In Ep.5 of 'Thought Pieces' Ben Lerner reads his expansive prose poems from his new book ‘Gold Custody,’ which take us on a perambulatory journey through time, personal mythologies and the unraveling of the mysterious languages we inherit.

About 'Gold Custody' by Barbara Bloom and Ben Lerner

What happens to an image or a phrase when it is reencountered, recontextualized, recombined — when a particular frame of reference is established or collapses? This collaborative book pursues these questions through artworks by Barbara Bloom and prose poems by Ben Lerner (10:04, The Topeka School), which veer between the promises of abstraction and languages of extreme privacy, as well as false fathers, lice, stone fruit, Casper Rappaport, color words, alephs, forever stamps, and Goethe’s corridor.

S1 Ep 4: Lynne Tillman reads from 'Book of Roy' Oct 17, 2021

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In Ep.4, writer Lynne Tillman uncovers the hidden histories of childhood, the relentless passing of time, and a very particular vision the misspent American youth of a boy named Roy.

S1 Ep 3: Paul Graham reads 'Past Caring' Oct 10, 2021

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In Ep.3 of ’Thought Pieces,’ Paul Graham looks back on his 1980s work based in unemployment offices across the UK, reflecting on the role of social care, Thatcher’s government, and the changing status of documentary photography in the public imagination.

S1 Ep 2: RaMell Ross reads 'Renew the Encounter' Oct 03, 2021

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In Ep.2 of ’Thought Pieces' filmmaker, writer and photographer RaMell Ross reads ‘Renew the Encounter,’ from the book ‘But Still it Turns,’ edited by Paul Graham. Part meditation and part manifesto, Ross invites us to deconstruct our relationship to photography and race through dazzling, urgent prose. This essay was originally published in Film Quarterly.

About 'But Still, It Turns'
'But Still, It Turns' is Paul Graham's revitalising manifesto for photography from the world – a re-dedication to the tangle of reality. In this dynamic and diverse book, Graham curates 8 photographers' work: Vanessa Winship, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, RaMell Ross, Kristine Potter, Curran Hatleberg, Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti, Gregory Halpern and Richard Choi, together with essays by Graham, Rebecca Bengal and Ian Penman, all of which tease out a new, enlightening post-documentary form for photography.

S1 Ep 1: Eileen Myles reads 'Vanishing' Sep 20, 2021

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In the first of this brand new podcast from MACK, poet Eileen Myles reads their essay 'Vanishing,' which was published in 'The Shabbiness of Beauty' by Moyra Davey and Peter Hujar. Having pasted photographs by Davey and Hujar on the walls of their New York City apartment, Myles begins an exploratory piece that spans the unrelenting passing of time, the remarkable visual dialogue between these two artists and their shared visual language.

About 'The Shabbiness of Beauty'
'The Shabbiness of Beauty' is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call, with little-known, scarcely seen images from Peter Hujar's archives set in dialogue with Moyra Davey's own photographs, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity.

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