A column of special features and reports by contemporary photographic writers and critics. Contains special conversations, reviews, essays, profiles, and more.
The magic or the uncertainty of chance is held in all kinds of gambles. Gambles that Rose Marie Cromwell makes by the way she presents us El Libro Supremo de la Suerte. The folds and turns of some photography books hold the key to new forms of constructed abilities that images can express…
Paho Mann investigates the personal and cultural relationships to objects we collect to address shifting values, perceptions, and memory. In the project, Fragmented Cameras, Mann used a consumer-grade 3D scanner to scan historic and obsolete cameras ranging from early stereoscopic cameras to first-generation iPhones…
The artists in this exhibition reflect on notions of paradise, idealism, and fantasy through a broad spectrum of photographic strategies. Together, the works here represent competing visual rhetoric spanning commercialism, irony, sincerity, observational and interpretative documentary, camp, appropriation, tableaux, personal narrative, and impartial photographic philosophies….
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks makes a case that the dissemination of photographs is just as important as their creation. It’s an exhibition about the socialization of photographs, various forms of sharing throughout the medium’s history, and the conceptual issues that arise from the immediacy of online sharing.
Introduction: Photography has long…
David Campany is among the most prolific and well-respected photography writers and curators working today. He has contributed historical and critical analysis of photographs in over two-hundred published essays for high-profile monographs and museum exhibitions, curates exhibitions for major museums and festivals…
Zach Nader: psychic pictures…
Utopia Centerfolds At Play, by…
“Children living in a war grow up quickly, they have adult eyes. I talk to them the way I would talk to adults. I ask questions, but these children are traumatized, so sometimes they do not want to answer and I do not insist.”
The photograph’s gift is to let us hold on, to re-affirm our past and identity, and to strengthen our relationship to our personal history. This role of a photograph is the starting point for Alma, Keisha Scarville’s haunting and seductive solo exhibition at Light Work…
In living memory, global populations of fishes, birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles more than doubled what remains today. In a geological blink-of-the-eye, half of the earth’s species will be threatened with extinction. This loss will crescendo by the end of the century. Photographic artists across the medium are grappling with this unfathomable change. The forty-six works in Now You Don’t: Photography and Extinction make the biodiversity crisis increasingly perceptible, and gesture toward a contemporary aesthetics of endangerment and species loss.
While artmaking is often cited as a system of creative problem solving, a search for pathways to convey an idea alternatively to the conventional, Lucas Blalock’s work creates problems. His pictures are often anti-resolutions, disembodied and boiling in predicament…