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"Richard Billingham - No Place Like Home (1997)"
A lovely piece by Jim Lewis on the seminal Billingham in ArtForum's January 97 issue:
....Once every year or two - and lately less frequently than that - I receive a sort of visitation of art, a visual experience altogether unlike any other. It is, quite literally, what I live my critical life for: an object or an image never before seen, at once entirely strange and perfectly familiar and right. So it was that during a trip to Los Angeles a few months ago someone happened to show me some photographs by a man named Richard Billingham, and I felt the aesthetic equivalent of love at first sight.....read more.
A lovely piece by Jim Lewis on the seminal Billingham in ArtForum's January 97 issue:
....Once every year or two - and lately less frequently than that - I receive a sort of visitation of art, a visual experience altogether unlike any other. It is, quite literally, what I live my critical life for: an object or an image never before seen, at once entirely strange and perfectly familiar and right. So it was that during a trip to Los Angeles a few months ago someone happened to show me some photographs by a man named Richard Billingham, and I felt the aesthetic equivalent of love at first sight.....read more.
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