Jeff Mermelstein – What if Jeff were a Butterfly?

Jeff Mermelstein – What if Jeff were a Butterfly?Photojournalist Jeff Mermelstein has spent decades documenting New York. He sees what most of us miss: fast, funny, sharp, catching scenes from the playbook of everyday life in the big city. Here, he turns the camera inward, starting with flowers, which are perhaps the most photographed subject in history, and possibly the most avoided, for that very reason. From there, the work unfolds through pages of journals, family snapshots, phone notes, and

expresses itself in both seemingly small everyday gestures and global political contexts

this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation

archival material

emancipation through friendship

failed research

But the logic of this history does not conform to the optimism of the humanistic discourse of progressive liberation and emancipation of animals that would finally secure their rights

Public Collectors publication #75 is another dive into the world of discarded and resold press photo archives

as well as the national reckoning that followed

Dafs in Art History – Painters

these writings had remained a marginal note

and participatory encounters

which draws from the poem's sixteen cantos and its previous iterations