Michael Schmelling – Your Blues CANADA and textures in contemporary capitalist

and textures in contemporary capitalist society

but pictures of them that cross the world are almost always from Western photographers who show a cliché like vision of the traditional jumping Maasai

which van Joolen has then complemented with pieces of second-hand and no-brand clothing

The fifth Subscription Series from TBW Books (Oakland) gathers four iconic living American photographers to offer entirely new bodies of never before seen work

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Michael Schmelling – Your Blues CANADA and textures in contemporary capitalistIn 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Photography commissioned American photographer Michael Schmelling to make a new series of photographs about music in his hometown of Chicago. Schmelling spent eighteen months immersed in the project, crisscrossing Chicago alone at night, making his way into basement shows, crowded clubs, parties, and recording studios, documenting both the communal culture at large musicians and fans alike and the DIY individualism