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Interview with Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

TM: One of the major themes in your work that inter­ests me is this use of the city’s image as a sort of build­ing block.  I believe I referred to them as recon­struc­tions or assem­blages in my intro­duc­tory post to this inter­view. How would you char­ac­ter­ize the way in which you com­bine these images?
AE: Yes, […]

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Upcoming interview with artist Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

I dis­cov­ered Allan Ellerby’s work while look­ing for images to accom­pany one of my pre­vi­ous posts. I’m pleased to say he has agreed to an inter­view that will be posted here later, but first, an intro­duc­tion is in order.
Ellerby was born in Hull, York­shire in Eng­land in 1952 and became inter­ested in pho­tog­ra­phy around the age […]

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WHY ART? Manifesto

by Tommy Manuel

So, if you’ve been read­ing, you may be aware that I like man­i­festos. I came across this one on by Holly Friesen while brows­ing Twit­ter yes­ter­day.  Friesen is an artist/poet liv­ing in the Lau­rent­ian moun­tains of Que­bec. Below is one of Friesn’s land­scape paint­ings, Fem­i­nine Cocoon.

Fem­i­nine Cocoon, 2008

The WHY ART? Man­i­festo
PEOPLE Have been THINKING too […]

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Upcoming Post: Interview with Harald Finster, Photographer

by Tommy Manuel

Cot­ton gin, Swansea, SC

I’ve been drawn to aban­doned indus­trial set­tings for quite some time. As best I can assume this goes back to my early inter­ac­tion with an archi­tec­ture that you won’t find on the cover of Archi­tec­tural Record, Details, GA, not even South­ern Liv­ing (appar­ently cater­ing to a par­tic­u­lar South with a par­tic­u­lar way […]

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