Primal Sight – Photographs by various artists | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

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Primal Sight – Photographs by various artists | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

Curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, this book surveys the rich and elastic world of black-and-white photography via the works of over 140 artists and essays from Zelony-Mindell, David Campany, and Gregory Eddi-Jones

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/efrem-zelony-mindell-primal-sight

Weaving its way from landscape to portrait, still life to assemblage, Primal Sight takes a near encyclopedic approach to sight itself. From Ally Caple’s quiet but forceful portrait Jasmine in Home Studio to Anastasia Samoylova’s dimensional Black and White Mountain, the viewer is led through multiple iterations of what a photograph can be. A survey, whether an exhibition or a book, is a hard format to get right. What is enough and how much is too much?