Utilizing the name and frame of John Szarkowskis’, Frailey highlights 100 photographers based on Susan Sontags’ premise that photography is an instrument for knowing things, and this is his collection of what he knows. His intention is to provide a platform to repeatedly explore the layered discoveries within a single image. As Frailey notes : “all images traffic in the marketplace of ideas.”

In this book group, Stephen Frailey discusses, among other things:

developing sensibility

exploring styles outside of comfort zones

transitioning from one body of work to another

animating still lives

degrees of appropriation

Referenced in the episode

John Szarkowski - Looking at Photographs 

Book Review - Hank Willis Thomas 

Jeanine Michna-Bales

Thomas Demand

Playboy, Braille Edition - funded by U.S. Congress since 1985

Arnika Dawkins Gallery

Dear Dave - for a signed copy of the book

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