PHOTO DUMP (3-24)

By: Joshua Glenn
March 27, 2024

A collection of photos taken during the past month by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn. Also see the SCREENSHOTS series; and see HILOBROW’s Instagram feed. Josh’s street-photography practice draws inspiration from Rob Walker’s THE ART OF NOTICING project.

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MARCH 2024


3/2

Charismatic oven in Kingston, NY.

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3/5

More art therapy with my mother, as she recovers from a stroke. It’s a diptych, one watercolor by each of us — inspired by the same source material (glimpsed on easel). As the caption to a freaky Gahan Wilson one-panel cartoon puts it: “I paint what I see.”

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3/9

The history of my collaboration with Rob Walker begins with a broken mug — as Rob explains in our Introduction to Significant Objects (2012). So when I broke this mug, a tchotchke from one of our Project:Object “volumes” (logo design by HILOBROW friend Joe Alterio), I had to let him know….

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3/19

I take so many photos of retail shelves. This is from a gas station where I was waiting while my car was being inspected. I was impressed by how semiotically “coherent” the entire array of products was — from snack bars to detergent to lighter fluid, it’s all so “powerful energy source”-coded.

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3/21

Spent the afternoon at RISD, in my role as guest critic for four MID thesis projects. Sarah is not one of my advisees, but I was pleased to be able to capture this shot from her thought-provoking presentation.

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3/23

Always a pleasure to spot a new title from MIT Press’s RADIUM AGE series (I’m the series editor). This one — published on March 12 — was spotted at Brookline Booksmith.

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3/27

Our family friend Alouette Hennessey’s band Kalliope Jones headlined at the Rockwood Boston — amazing stuff.

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3/30

A quick trip to Minneapolis and St. Paul, visiting with Sam, Kayla, HILOBROW friend Charlie Mitchell, and other great people.

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ALSO SEE: John Hilgart (ed.)’s HERMENAUTIC TAROT series | Josh Glenn’s VIRUS VIGILANTE series | & old-school HILOBROW series like BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE | CHESS MATCH | EGGHEAD | FILE X | HILOBROW COVERS | LATF HIPSTER | HI-LO AMERICANA | PHRENOLOGY | PLUPERFECT PDA | SKRULLICISM.

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