In this year's installment of Boo Topographics, Bucky Miller writes about the anatomical incorrectness of so many Halloween animal skeletons.
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Review
A Very Self-Conscious Conceptual Review of Robert Cumming’s “Very Pictorial Conceptual Art”
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews “Very Pictorial Conceptual Art,” a monograph featuring the work of photographer Robert Cumming.
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Bucky Miller writes about his search to find Skelly, Home Depot's 12-foot skeleton.
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Bucky Miller reviews three photo books that show, use, and play with the tricky medium of photography.
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Essay
Displaying Play: The Oliver Museum of Museums in Photographs (OMOMIP), Part 2
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller gives an imagined tour of a mysterious set of photographs taken at a mysterious museum location.
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Review
Remixing the Classics: Adde Russell at Commerce Gallery, Lockhart
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews a solo exhibition by artist Adde Russell, which was recently on view at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart.
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Essay
Displaying Display: The Oliver Museum of Museums in Photographs (OMOMIP), Part 1
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller muses about a mysterious set of photographs taken at a mysterious museum location.
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Bucky Miller writes about the pleasure of used bookstores and reviews three books about art and photography.
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Bucky Miller writes about photo books by artists Thomas Locke Hobbs and Matt Price.
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Review
Larry McMurtry in the Whole Foods Cafe: Three Recent Books From Texas Photographers
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews three recently published photography books by Texas artists Barry Stone, Jason Reed, and Colby Deal.
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Bucky Miller interviews artist Sallie Scheufler about her practice and her current exhibition at Art League Houston.
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Review
Dream of a World with Junk Windows: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s “Huts, Temples, Castles”
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's book "Huts, Temples, Castles," which documents a diminutive utopia of junk constructed by a group of Amsterdam youths.
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Bucky Miller writes about Homer, his neighborhood cat companion that he met during the pandemic lockdown in Houston.
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Review
A Shockingly Modernist Project and Others: Four Books of Photographs
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews four photography books published in 2021 and 2022, including a tome on Diane Arbus, a curious book by Michael Yuan, and others.
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Review
Book Review: Maybe Earth Magic, Literally: Michael Lundgren’s “Geomancy”
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller reviews Michael Lundgren’s photobook "Geomancy," published in 2019 by Stanley/Barker Books.
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Photo Essay
Boo Topographics: I’m Thinking About Those Paintings Where The Eyes Become Real Eyes And Follow You Around The Room
by Bucky Millerby Bucky MillerBucky Miller takes us on a Halloween-themed road trip from New York to Austin, and opines about how the former Whitney Museum building in New York City would make a perfect temporary Spirit Halloween location.
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Bucky Miller revisits photo reviews he wrote for his Instagram followers during the height of the COVID pandemic.
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Bucky Miller recalls his first few weeks of the pandemic, including a visit to Pie Town, New Mexico.
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Rediscovering pictures of Houston's Galleria sent me spiraling back over the madness of the past two years. This, in turn, made me wonder what other lost photographs I could unearth from the depths of our first quarantine.
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I can recall a skeleton Elvis I once saw. The scary pompadour works.