PhotoStatic 11: May 1985

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The Hum of Modern Civilization in Action

Suggested casually one day by friend and collaborator Paul Neff, the theme for this issue was adopted to allude to our growing awareness that we were part of a community that used machines, as opposed to tools, to make art (a machine being thought of as a complex tool). The relationship to art and the machine, and of art’s ever shifting role in culture, had already become one of the facets of the modern world we were exploring in this publication.