The artist Katerina Jebb didn’t plan to be a photographer, nor an artist. Neither did she receive a formal education in art, cinema, or photography. She found it on her own. Or one can wonder if these disciplines didn’t find

In one of the most poignant scenes from her debut documentary A FAMILY, writer Christine Angot looks at a black and white photograph of herself as a teenager. “I remember this photo, this moment in my life. I wasn’t in

Beware of the dandy. He has a cold heart and a cold hand, like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. He could kill to have his necktie on right. Jean Cocteau, the French poet-of-all-trades, had his character Orpheus say: “My friends,

In 2011, I was invited to participate in the design of a house for a skateboarder in Malibu, California. The client, a former world champion pro skater turned business owner, wanted to create a house where one could skateboard on

Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and was a resident of the city his entire life until his death in 1980.  As the first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects (inducted in 1923), Williams