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Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.

American Portraits: Midwest Mundane Vernacular Photography of Michigan

Another picture from American Portraits: Midwest Mundane, larger cover image, link to site for the book HERE Preview or Order the book HERE ...

American Portraits: Midwest Mundane by Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books #5

Jim Linderman American Portraits: Midwest Mundane. 80 Pages 2010 published by Blurb.com Not celebration, but documentation of a people, pla...

Stardust? Nope....Sand. In His LUNGS!

Ahh, the Stardust. The glory days of the Strip when you actually had to pull a lever to place a slot bet. Today, the rubes can hardly be b...

The Paintings of Camera Club Girls by Rudolph Rossi

So a few folks have received their copies of Camera Club Girls , and two wrote to say "They're PAINTINGS" and I'm like, yu...

Herbert Freeman Orlando Artist

I used to be quite involved and enamored of what was once known as outsider art and is now known as who knows what. I can only do so much, ...

Bro' Tom Skinner Lays a Love Bag of Skin on you (the Thrilla in Manila Paper)

I present Tom Skinner and his "Up from Harlem" to steer you the right way. Preacher Tom lays his Jesus bag on heavy in this ...

The Mechanix of Folk Art

All Cribbed from early 1930s issues of Home Mechanix.

Greil Marcus Writes Again. Van Morrison's voice.

I have always taken Van Morrison for granted. Even during last years recent touring reconstruction of the masterful album Astral Weeks, (Th...

Jim Linderman Camera Club Girls: Bettie Page and her Friends: The Work of Rudolph Rossi

For over 50 years, the extraordinary Hand-Painted Original Photographs of Bettie Page and nude models of the 1950s taken by Rudolph Rossi la...

Draw Like Daisy Mager

One of the most prolific children's illustrators in history was Daisy Mager, but you wouldn't know it by searching Google. Sometime...

Spring 2010 at Dull Tool Dim Bulb

It is spring indeed, flowers are popping. Progress too! DULL TOOL DIM BULB BOOKS will announce the FOURTH BOOK in the series of limited e...

Jim Linderman Foam International Photography Magazine

(Click to Enlarge) I am pleased to have a brief article and profile in the Spring 2010 issue of Foam: International Photography Magazine . ...

At the Circus in Black and White (Japan style) #18

Number 18 of "At the Circus in Black and White" provides proof the circus knows no borders. Group of early Japanese Circus Postcar...

Luc Sante on Real Photo Postcards: The New School Lecture

I might be a little slow on the draw here, but The Parson's Department of Photography at the New School has loade...

The FIRST Abstract American Art The Parfleche

It is almost as if there used to be an unspoken, institutional refusal to acknowledge the beauty and validity of Native-American Art. To ad...

1928 Perp Walk of Edward Hickman Los Angeles "Fox Slayer" Meet the Press

"Interest in Edward Hickman, Los Angeles "Fox Slayer" of Marian Parker has not laxed since his trial and death sentence, judg...

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