Practical Photography, 2006-08 [view larger] © Torbjørn Rødland There is an excellent group show currently up at Andrew Kreps which deserves some attention. The exhibition, titled To Be Determined, is described by the press release as being “centered around a generation of artists whose work stretch the limits of photography. Portraiture and self-portraiture, archiving, and [...]
I’m happy to take part in “The Troposphere,” a group show in Manhattan that was curated by Sophie Lvoff to include photographs by the following artists: Alicia Baird, Christine Collins, Gerald Edwards III, Bertrand Fleuret, Jason Fulford, Bryan Graf, Brenton Hamilton, Sharon Harper, Shane Huffman, Shane Lavalette, Sophie T. Lvoff, Curtis Mann, Patrick Nilsson, Thomas [...]
Mike Mandel sent me an e-mail recently reminding me to see an exhibition of Boston-based photographer Karl Baden‘s Covering Photography collection, now up at the Boston Public Library in their Rare Books and Manuscripts exhibition space. The show, titled “Imitation, Influence… and Coincidence,” highlights books from Karl’s collection that either appropriate or seem to be [...]
Victor Sira has curated what looks to be an interesting show at ICP‘s Education Gallery called Book Dummies. As described online, Book Dummies is an exhibition that gives insight into the process of making a photo book. It reveals the many layers of the process, and gives a step-by-step view of the approach used by [...]
Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator of the Department of Photography, MoMA’s New Photography 2008 exhibition brings together the work of German photographer Josephine Meckseper and South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky. From the website: Each artist’s works exemplify recent developments in art: the reinvention of documentary photography to picture the diverse conditions of everyday life in [...]
The East Meadows, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 13, 2006 [from "Oxbow Archive"] © Joel Sternfeld I’ve always been a big fan of Joel Sternfeld‘s work, so I was happy to hear about his exhibition of new photographs that just opened at Luhring Augustine entitled Oxbow Archive. For the large-scale images, Sternfeld focused his 5×7 camera on [...]
There has already been a lot of discussion surrounding New York Photo Festival on the blogosphere: Andrew Hetherington‘s and Michael David Murphy‘s columns over on Foto8, Robert Wright’s critique of Tim Barber’s Various Photographs exhibition (which Joerg Colberg deemed “the worst photography show [he has] ever seen”) and, of course, many others. While I also [...]
Life in the Big City, 2008 © Jessica Iannuzzi It’s nice to see that students are putting on interesting photo shows. photoFEAST, a student-run photography organization at Parsons, is presenting their most recent Spring undergraduate exhibition. This time, they call it Idlewild. Idlewild highlights works stemming from many veins in contemporary photography. As a whole, [...]
Question Mark, 2007-08 © Ryan McGinley Ryan McGinley‘s latest work, from a series titled I Know Where the Summer Goes (after a Belle & Sebastian b-side), proves to be be another set of pretty, youthful images for fans to enjoy. The new work will be on display from April 3rd to May 3rd at Team [...]
When I was in New York last week, I visited Aperture with Michael. The Matthew Sleeth show that was up was pretty interesting in itself but I think both Michael and I were drawn to the Erik Kessels exhibit entitled In Almost Every Picture. In Almost Every Picture is an idiosyncratic collection of found images [...]
