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Elmo Tide

I encountered the photographic work of Elmo Tide through this here zine. I gazed repeatedly at the pages over the course of several months before being triggered by a particular photograph to dig deeper. In my attempt to find additional work via the Internet I came up with nothing. Well, a Flickr page exists containing the same images as in the zine and there is an obscure interview revealing absolutely nothing personal. Who is Elmo Tide? Likely a pseudonym for an exceptionally talented photographer who prefers to keep his identity hidden. And hey, who can’t respect that in these overexposed times? Many of us are lacking a little mystique and it often favors artists anyway, right? What you get from Mr. Tide is an eclectic, cinematic-looking mix of naturally lit, but often low, black and white photographs, documenting a variety of subcultures. Subjects like wrestlers, cowboys, and strippers are documented, along with those unusual moments that often pass by without notice in the street.
www.hamburgereyes.com
-A.McManus

Coast-to-coast

Judi Rosen @ Fuse Gallery

Electric Works

Andy Kaufman

Art?

Trailer Park Boy in Bk

Art show in Chelsea or Oakland?

Nike’s Suite at Barclay Center…fun

Jaimie Warren @ The Hole

Lots to see here. Check it out while it’s up.

Scam Scribbles

New Years Family op…rare treat

I completely spaced on who this artist is and what gallery it was at?

Jack Halloway, Jeff Cahnam, and Alex Kopps at Mollusk

Andrew Schoultz is always grinding out new work in his studio

February issue of Juxtapoz

I did a 12-page interview with Aaron Huey

I have work in the New Iconograph Magazine #2.

It was put together by Justin Blyth, with Justin Van hoy (RIP), Andrew Pogany, and Hassan Rahim as contributing editors

It looks great

The whole MQ zine collection completed.

“Soup-Ply & the Deep End” by Jai Tanju

1998 MQ x TIE
MQ
I’m unsure if a zine entirely compiled of photocopied stickers has ever been made. However, if anyone was going to be the first the appropriate person would certainly be MQ aka MKUE, MQUE, or MQIZM. The prolific vandal has made his adhesive obsession apparent in recent years, blanketing a number of major cities around the planet with his name badge-sized labels. When his photocopied stickers began popping up they spawned a resurgence of interest in stickers among graffiti writers and beyond, most notably in San Francisco. A new formula had been developed, and MQ willingly and generously divulged his methods for all to replicate. By folding sheets of stickers and binding them by a single rubber band and some glue, MQ created, simply, a “sticker zine.” This particular edition contains photocopied photographs from 1998 of his work with TIE. Other editions focus on the cities of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
www.mqism.com
-A.McManus

Soweto/Sowebo
Martha Cooper

When I suggested making a zine instead of a book, Martha Cooper agreed without hesitation. Martha was in South Africa taking photographs and spent some time in the culturally rich neighborhood of Soweto, a township outside of Johannesburg. She recognized the correlations between Soweto and a neighborhood in her hometown of Baltimore named Sowebo. The similarity in names is no coincidence. Sowebo was nicknamed after Soweto over 30 years ago due to its desolate appearance and the name has stuck ever since. The photographs in “Soweto/Sowebo” present documentation of how opposite sides of the planet can have notably comparable landscapes, recreational activities, and obstacles, among other resemblances.
www.12ozprophet.com/martha_cooper
-A.McManus