Evidence of Existence A conversation with Toronto-based photographer Arnaud Maggs by Ben Portis
The artistic life of Arnaud Maggs corresponds in familiar and occasionally surprising ways to others of his generation. Born in Montreal in 1926, he apprenticed himself to the graphic arts trade after doing service with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. There he learned and relished the minutiae of the guild industry as it was entering one of its greatest creative periods... In 1973, Maggs took a radical turn, abandoning commercial work altogether to express himself simply and purely as a fine artist... He opted to impose technical limits on his process, buying a used Hasselblad...
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Cover Song A Brief History of Alex Steinweiss, the Inventor of Album Art by Peter Frank
Nothing focuses the mind on a design genre like its
obsolescence—its recent obsolescence, that is, noticed by its
practitioners and its users only when that form has been breached. So it is
with the record album cover. With the superannuation of the album itself in
the early 1990s, ceding to the CD, the art of the album cover was
practically pushed off a cliff. The 12-inch square cardboard format that
had proved one of the most dynamic and widespread forms of poster design in
the world...
Shanghai Cubism Isidro Blasco builds some photographs by Lyle Rexer
