MeadowlarkTo make the pictures in Meadowlark, Ian Bates spent years driving the vast, sparsely populated spaces of the American West, often sleeping in his car. This is a project borne of both passion and patience, and though Bates was initially inspired by the Western Meadowlarkstate bird of North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Kansas, and Nebraskathe bird ultimately proved elusive, and appears here only once, as a crude facsimile painted on a weathered

including Max Roach

with a Bell and Howell projector soundtrack

taken by the blinding light

Its editors

“Every photograph I make of her is a Half Self-Portrait

twelve hours a day

Graubard chased stories as her heart led her

Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years

inspired by the alliterative verse of the old English poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer

languid poses and intimate spaces of others

Peter Hujar

it is the sense of form