David Evans Frantz – författare

For more than half a century, the Village Voice served as America’s most influential alternative newspaper – a fearless chronicler of politics, culture, and everyday life in New York City. American Bohemia gathers the extraordinary photographs that helped define the paper’s visual identity and shaped how readers saw the city and themselves. Bringing together work by nearly fifty photographers, this richly illustrated volume captures the radical energy, artistic experimentation, and social upheaval that animated the Voice from the 1950s through the 1990s. From the pioneering street photography of Fred W. McDarrah to the evocative portraits and documentary images of Amy Arbus, James Hamilton, Coreen Simpson, Sylvia Plachy, and many others, these photographs chart the evolution of downtown culture and American counterculture alike. They document political protest, nightlife, performance, and the everyday drama of urban life, revealing how photography functioned not merely as illustration but as a central mode of storytelling within the Voice. Featuring newly commissioned essays and reflections by editors and contributors, including a catalog essay by Hilton Als, American Bohemia situates the Village Voice within a broader history of alternative journalism and visual culture. The book traces how its photographers expanded the possibilities of photojournalism and influenced generations of artists, writers, and readers. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the California Museum of Photography, this volume offers a vivid portrait of New York during decades of artistic ferment and political change. It is both a tribute to the photographers who defined an era and a reminder of the enduring power of independent media to document and shape cultural life. Photographers: Michael Ackerman, Amy Arbus, Marc Asnin, Martin Benjamin, Bill Bernstein, Carrie Boretz, Chris Buck, Michel Delsol, Pamela Duffy, Deborah Feingold, Ricky Flores, Frank Fournier, Frank Franca, Andy Freeberg, Donna Gray, Lois Greenfield, Lori Grinker, Carol Halebian, James Hamilton, Meg Handler, Caroline Howard, Peter Hujar, Hiroyuki Ito, Mike Kamber, Kristine Larsen, David C. Lee, Laura Levine, Darren Lew, Andrew Lichtenstein, Adam Mastoon, Fred W. McDarrah, Catherine McGann, Thomas McGovern, Greg Miller, Steven Mark Needham, Danuta Otfinowski, Brian Palmer, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Keri Pickett, Sylvia Plachy, Allen Reuben, Linda Rosier, Steven Rubin, Nevin Shalit, Coreen Simpson, Ann Summa, Doug Vann, Harvey Wang, C. T. Wemple

The first monograph on the exuberant, polymorphous art of Teddy Sandoval, whose work explored community, queerness and Chicano identityPublished with Vincent Price Art Museum and Williams College Museum of Art and Independent Curators International.Accompanying the artist’s first retrospective, Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art examines the work of the inventive yet overlooked Los Angeles–based artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–95). A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums—including ceramics, mail art, painting, printmaking, performance, photography, window displays and xerography—that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.This expansive publication surveys Sandoval’s work alongside other queer, Latinx and Latin American artists whose practices profoundly resonate. The expansive catalog features essays by C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz, Raquel Gutiérrez and Mari Rodriguez Binnie, as well as biographical entries on additional artists featured in the exhibition, among them, Félix Ángel, Myrna Báez, Álvaro Barrios, Ester Hernández, Hudinilson Jr., Antonio Lopez, María Martínez-Cañas, Marisol and Joey Terrill.

The first retrospective monograph for a legendary feminist artist and pedagogue who taught generations of artists at CalArtsPublished with Krannert Art Museum.Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition showcasing three decades of work from Millie Wilson (born 1948), this publication delves into the influential, yet under-recognized, artist and educator whose work has deftly examined feminism, queerness and their historical erasure from art institutions. Her work joins 1980s postmodernism with the personally and politically charged conceptualism of the 1990s, reflecting a particularly unruly conception of queerness that emerged in California during these decades. The catalog highlights Wilson’s appropriation of museum display practices and institutional authority, her art historical references to Dada and Surrealism, her sharp attention to gendered portrayals of sexual deviance in early 20th-century psychoanalysis and sexology, and her long-standing interest in bodies as contested sites. It also features newly commissioned scholarly essays by curator David Evans Frantz and scholar Jill H. Casid, a conversation among artists who studied with Wilson, and extensive new photographic documentation of Wilson’s work.