Interview with Thatcher Hullerman Cook

Thatcher Hullerman Cook

 
Thatcher Hullerman Cook is a documentary photographer based in Maine and South Carolina. His clients are primarily humanitarian aid and development organizations that work with refugees and other people affected by war, economic upheaval, and natural disasters. His clients include international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which have sent him on assignment to over sixty countries. Black Apple (Obscura Press) is his first book.
 
 

Black Apple Now Available

Black Apple by Thatcher Hullerman Cook

Obscura is very proud to announce that Black Apple by Thatcher Hullerman Cook is available for purchase.

I’m the Best Printer in the World: Richard Benson’s Survey of Printing

The Printed Picture by Richard Benson  |  Published by MoMA, 2008

Richard Benson taught at Yale for thirty years.  He was named Dean of the Art School in 1995, and when he stepped down from that job in 2006, a tribute by photographer Tod Papageorge in the Yale Art Gallery Bulletin described his career as "crooked" and "careening." 

The young Benson looked so much like his father that the family called him Chip, as in "off the old block." John Howard Benson was a legendary calligrapher and stonecutter whom his son recalls as an "odd" man with a long beard and homemade corduroy shirts – he died when Benson was 12.  

After his freshman year at Brown, Benson told the college president he wanted "to work with his hands" and left. He became a large-format photographer, a master printer, received a MacArthur "genius grant” and two Guggenheims. He helped develop the tri-tone printing process and invented a way to make gorgeous prints in acrylic paint on coated aluminum.  In a 1990 New Yorker profile he admitted, without seeming to exactly boast, "I can honestly say that I'm the best printer in the world."

A Violent Fairy Tale

Ryan Gosling in Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film Drive, is a violent fairy tale, set on the surreally tinted night time streets of LA, that follows a stunt driving James Dean look-a-like (Ryan Gosling ) as he attempts to rescue a tragically single-mom/waitress (Carey Mulligan) from a series of mobster clichés and recognizable TV actors. After which ensues a series of operatically shot splatter fest confrontations between the lone driver and his video game quality enemies. 

Black Apple Pre-Sale on Kickstarter

© Thatcher Hullerman Cook

 
ABOUT THE BOOK
 
Black Apple is an extraordinary collection of images from a visionary documentary photographer. Made during a seven-month stay in the Ferghana Valley of Kyrgyzstan, these images document the struggles of a society struggling in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Thatcher shot the project entirely in black in white using both panoramic and 35mm film cameras. The resulting images are stark and unyeilding, showing a forgotten and often desperate corner of the world, but they also offer a powerful reminder of the value of community and family.
 

This Is: After-Photography 1839/1851/1880/1975/1980

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We are experiencing direct impact from technology upon the technical structures of the medium, potentially undermining the photograph’s status as we have come to know it over a hundred and sixty years. This unique and special status – this prescient index is wobbling.

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