I wholeheartedly promise that nobody is checking for your six-year-old Swiffer Wet Jet that you just plopped on the side of the road next to the off-putting beige chair with three missing legs. Look me in the eyes: We are not interested. The season has commenced: summertime is over and there are 33 couches lined […]
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How to grieve in America: Iowa City photographer Rachel Cox turns her focus to our shared spaces of grief
It’s a simple, but profound question: Why do we grieve in the way that we do? Photographer Rachel Cox has been contemplating our process of grief for a few years now as she’s worked composing a series of photographs focused on our shared physical spaces of grieving. This series, Mors Scena, comprises her Iowa Artists […]
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Five questions with: Photographer Barry Phipps
Iowa City multimedia artist Barry Phipps has released his most recent book of photographs, Driving a Table Down (University of Iowa Press). It’s a visual travelogue told over 18 days and 108 pages, detailing a trip taken with his mother from Iowa to Florida, to visit (and deliver the titular furniture to) family. In Zak […]
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Review: ‘Between Gravity and What Cheer’ showcases Iowa’s quirks and charm
Shot over the course of four years, Barry Phipps’ new book, Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs (published by University of Iowa Press), is a lovely 112 page book with 105 color photographs showcasing the quirks and charm found in small towns across the state.
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‘Death by a thousand cuts’: University Camera is closing after 48 years
University Camera, which opened in 1970, is the last full-service camera store in Johnson County and one of a handful of such stores still remaining in the Midwest. When it closes its doors for the last time on April 15, a wide range of photographic services will disappear in Iowa City.
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#nineposts featuring photographer Mary Mathis of Fools Magazine
#nineposts is a Little Village project featuring the work of area creators through the @littlevillagemag Instagram feed. This weekend we’ll be sharing work from Fools Magazine co-creator and photographer Mary Mathis.
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Photo project highlights what women carry in self defense
Guarded, a photo series by Taylor Yocom, was recently published in a Loyola University student magazine, and now the University of Iowa photography…
