The artist’s first survey is a celebration of plurality. Picturing the people and places of contemporary America across her many series, Opie uses photography as a tool for connection, inviting us to look with empathy.
Since moving from in front of the lens to behind it, Ming Smith has forged a groundbreaking career around her lyrical, loving images of African American life, drawn together in this new monograph.
In this feverish photographic hallucination, Cristiano Volk takes a critical look at capitalism, capturing the signs and symbols of our consumerist culture in electric shades of neon.
Returning to his childhood neighborhood of Spring Valley, Al J Thompson’s first book is a loving testimony to a shifting landscape and the faces of those living in it.
Riffing on the depiction of women across the history of art, Carlota Guerrero’s own take on the ‘divine feminine’ that unfolds across the pages of her first monograph is a strong and sensual one.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dana Lixenberg, Jack Davison and Stephen Gill are among the list of artists donating works
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Captured in 25 strip clubs across the US and Mexico, Waterman’s latest photobook, Moneygame, is an extensive documentation of the many facets of strip culture
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Reading Time: 6 minutes A monumental retrospective in Paris provides an urgent insight into the culture of one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups and Andujar’s relationship to it
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rethinking the photobook structure, Meneghello investigates the complexity behind the homoerotic gaze
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Reading Time: 3 minutes “It felt like a poignant opportunity to reflect on the contribution that Black people continue to make to British culture”
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Mendez & Kaplan to investigate the impact of climate change in Colombia in a new collaboration between WaterAid and 1854
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Canadian photographer observes her own life to explore the commodification of our personal data and way of being
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Maki’s images in Japan Somewhere (Zen Foto Gallery), produced over a fourteen-year period feel anxious and compressed. Though specific to one country, the Frenchman’s images feel anything but declarative. They feel ambulatory, intrepid, and often chaotic as if shot in a constant state of momentum and high velocity. The frames are heavily compressed […]
Sébastien Cuvelier’s Paradise City (GOST, 2020) combines several rich storytelling elements into one photobook that considers Iran as a historic place pitted against the tumultuous change of the past fifty years as a backdrop for interrogation. Using his own photographs and images shot by his uncle in 1971 on his own odyssey, Cuvelier […]
Glancing at Steel Town by Stephen Shore (MACK, 2021) gives the reader the impression that what they are looking at has a point of fixity in the past. The images, produced in 1977 for Fortune Magazine, and have a quality that suggests a bygone era. Whether it is the kitsch interior of Eddie’s […]
“Searles believes that everything in nature has a soul, and these images show her desire to connect with it, calibrating color and composition to establish actual and abstract relations between time, culture, and the natural world.”
Anne Immelé’s Oublie Oublie is a book about a transitional time and place. Between 2019 and early 2020, the French artist surveyed municipal works and changes in the neighborhood of Le Nouveau Drouot in Mulhouse, France where she lives and teaches photography. The urban environment of her images suggests the 1950s’ and 60’s city planning […]
An Interview between Zak R. Dimitrov, Beata Bartecka, and Łukasz Rusznica regarding their book How to Look Natural in Photos Palm* Studios and OPT. How to Look Natural in Photos is a functional, yet very aesthetically pleasing book. It examines the way photography operates as a mechanism and a tool for […]
Edward Steichen’s gestural Studies of Isadora Duncan at the Parthenon, Charlotte Rudolph’s studies of German dancers, James Abbe’s still frames of Anna Pavlova, Barabra Morgan’s studies of Martha Graham and her Letter to the World, and a number of other medium-defining images can be accredited to an embrace of the body in movement. […]
Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…
In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…
She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…
Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…
Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence? Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification? Or are we simply denying our own…
Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…
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