Oct 01, 2007
Mekon, Waco Brother, Countryman: Jon Langford
Jon Langford is responsible for way too much great art for you not to know who he is. To begin at the beginning, he’s one of two remaining original members of the Mekons, singing and playing guitar in the increasingly difficult-to-categorize onetime punk band he founded while studying art at the University of Leeds, England, in 1977. Their albums Fear and Whiskey and Edge of the World, from 1985 and 1986, respectively, were among…
Sep 08, 2004
Fighting the Death of a Dying Art
It seems that digital photography is the wave of the future. Countless photobloggers depend on digital cameras to rapidly export their work to their Web-based viewership. And DCist couldn’t bring you on-the-scene photos without a digital camera or handy camera phone. But is the art form associated with traditional photography — dark rooms, rolls of film, noxious chemicals and all — being lost? James W. Bailey says yes. Bailey’s new exhibition, “The Death of Film,”…