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Luc Sante on “The Last Newspaper”
Several years ago, when Robert Silvers spoke at 192 Books, the New York Review of Books editor was asked what subject he felt was the most difficult to write about. “Contemporary art” was his answer, and he said that he was hoping to cover more recent art in the pages of his journal. While I [...]
Luc Sante, Folk Photography
My interview with Luc Sante, about his new book Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930 (Yeti/Verse Chorus Press), has just been published on Artforum.com. Click through not only to read his ruminations on this early-twentieth-century phenomenon, but also to see a slide show of additional images from the book. In the course of our [...]
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Most Wanted
On August 3 the writer Luc Sante updated his blog for the first time since the beginning of the year. The post offers the story of a talkative retired cop he met one night in the 1980s at Farrell’s bar, in Brooklyn. It’s a little gem of a tale that involves Andy Warhol in unexpected [...]
