Ruth Orkin - Photofile society Contralytic is a biannual journal

Contralytic is a biannual journal

and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts

Kürzestgeschichten über Menschen

and faced with album covers that are artworks in their own right

Ruth Orkin - Photofile society Contralytic is a biannual journalRuth Orkin (192185) always dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, and although that ambition was thwarted until later in her career, she quickly found other ways of engaging with the world of images. She was given her first camera at the age of ten and by the age of seventeen, she was cycling across America from Los Angeles to New York, documenting her trip in albums of annotated photographs. In the early 1940s she settled in New York, joining the Photo