I sometimes
dream of an ideal photographic journal, maybe one distributed on microfiche so
we can all afford it. In my imagination it is assembled in somebody’s garage in
the Midwest. It is a magazine devoted to successful work because that is all we
have time for; it is a journal notable for its tact and lucidity, and it is a
magazine full of pictures because they are the point. We might just take our
cue from Man Ray’s friends and call it Good News. And we won’t allow ourselves
to be labeled sentimentalists, because our title does not imply that good news
in the short run comprises the news or even most of the news. In
fact, we may note editorially that our attention to good news is evidence of
our pessimism, our belief that good news is rare and we cannot afford to
overlook any of it.
Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography (1981)
Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography (1981)
GOOD NEWS Issue 3
March 2024150 pages
20x25cm (8x10 inches)
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Photo by Liz Potter
About Issue 3:
A year ago, a conversation sparked the idea for creating a print publication, which we could use to give photographs a place to live in. Our main motivation came out of the shared frustration with how we publish photography online. A photograph only exists for a fleeting moment on a screen and due to fast scrolling a series of such turns into a gibberish movie. A printed photograph lives with you until you throw it away or your house burns down. Furthermore, the magazine provides enough ground for photographs and text to coexist in harmony. No other unavoidable visual noise. Design has a great deal importance to this publication as well. If the photographs and paragraphs are the gears, design is the lubricant. Ensuring that all runs smoothly.
Photo by Max Schneller
With our third issue, we continue to explore the medium of photography by asking questions, seeking answers, looking at projects and photographic works, writing essays, and interviewing artists and artisans. This issue features the work of photographers from different countries. We explore Vienna - the birthplace of GOOD NEWS. To understand how the city influences the photographers who call it home, we go above and below the streets. We take to the States, across the ocean to walk through small towns and deserts. Back in Vienna, we talk to artisans who we believe play a key role in keeping the community alive. We explore lenses again, this time we throw a typewriter off a cliff. Oh, and we tell you how to save money by shooting more film.
This third issue of GOOD NEWS is created by Damyan Doumanov and Jahan Saber with contributions by:
Daniel Binder,
Sebastian Bruckmayr,
Liz Potter,
Hanna Pribitzer,
Maximilian Schneller.
We are grateful for their participation!
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POLAROIDS FOR
MODERN PROSE
MODERN PROSE
Jack Kerouac is labeled the chronicler of the beat generation and his style of spontaneous prose is highly regarded in the realm of literature. And his legacy denied only by few. In the 1950s Allen Ginsberg, another prominent figure of the time, asked Kerouac to define this literary style. The guide he provided was as obscure and unpredictable as his works. In the book “You are a Genius all the Time: Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” he outlines 30 essential guides for writers. They have become commonly known as Kerouac’s 30 rules for writing.
Working with this list of rules Damyan Doumanov and Jahan Saber took 30 Polaroids to serve as an interpretation of these in a photographic sense.
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Working with this list of rules Damyan Doumanov and Jahan Saber took 30 Polaroids to serve as an interpretation of these in a photographic sense.
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