The photographer wanted to tell a story about Chinese American family life. But, how do you photograph your mother without photographing your mother?
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-radiant-intimacy-of-jarod-lew-family-portraits/
At home in suburban Detroit, the Chinese American photographer invokes the unstable fantasias of personal memory.
A new exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery brings together images photographer Alec Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth beg…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/alec-soth-asks-what-a-pound-of-pictures-weighs/
A new exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery brings together images photographer Alec Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth began A Pound of Pictures by taking a series of road trips, in this case on a quest to further explore a deeper connection between the ephemerality and physicality of photography as a medium. Depicting a vast array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and a bust of Abraham Lincoln — this series reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images.
Tema Stauffer’s photographs explore how the experience of going somewhere is shaped by your expectations of what you will find.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-real-places-that-gave-rise-to-southern-fictions
It is this kind of heftier noun which Tema Stauffer takes for her subject in “Southern Fiction,” a visual survey of the settings that shaped the imaginations of some of the last century’s most significant Southern writers. Stauffer’s pictures are not illustrations of particular literary works or portraits of individual writers but, rather, invocations of people and places, both real and imagined. Taken together, they capture the intellectual and aesthetic challenges posed by biography, but also by geography—and specifically by the American South.
Genesis Báez explores the complexity of care, touch, and belonging among Puerto Rican women in the United States and beyond.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/genesis-baez-fleeting-visions-of-the-puerto-rican-diaspora/
In her photography, Báez explores the complexity of care, touch, and belonging among Puerto Rican women in the United States and beyond.
There are different ways of being lost, and intention might be what makes all the difference. Often, when you say you’re lost, Tania Franco Klein tell…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/tania-franco-klein-the-gorgeous-hitchhike/
There are different ways of being lost, and intention might be what makes all the difference. Often, when you say you’re lost, Tania Franco Klein tells me, “You’re actually feeling other things. You’re not actually lost. Maybe you’re feeling isolated, frustrated, anxious; that feeling comes from different places.” In her work, the Mexico City-based photographer searches out such places. She outlines a universe where they might live, begins to color it in, and during the process, finds she has arrived at some sort of destination. Being lost is sometimes the best way to find where you are going. “There’s something comforting about the acknowledgment of it,” agrees Franco Klein, “knowing you’re going somewhere, even if you don’t know where.”
Sandy Kim’s exhibition PSYCHOCANDY at HVW8 Gallery examines Kim’s month-long psychosis as it informs her photographic gaze and awareness of the e…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sandy-kim-psychocandy-hvw8-gallery-la/
Sandy Kim’s exhibition PSYCHOCANDY at HVW8 Gallery examines Kim’s month-long psychosis as it informs her photographic gaze and awareness of the ever chaotic and fragile balance of her personal and professional life. Through this sometimes fragmented and distorted lens, we find moments of family life and friendship filed amongst glimpses of high profile celebrity fueled commercial shoots; blended together, this mixture begs the question of what is truly real life and what is an illusion.
In the 1970s, David Ashkenas photographed Pittsburgh, in classic images that revive the city’s glorious past.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/3970-historic-pittsburgh-a-grimy-wonderland-en
In the 1970s, David Aschkenas photographed Pittsburgh, in classic images that revive the city’s glorious past.
Ragnar Axelsson’s portraits from Greenland reveal the effects of climate change on ice floes, sled dogs, and a traditional culture.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-fading-ways-of-indigenous-arctic-hunters
Ragnar Axelsson’s portraits from Greenland reveal the effects of climate change on ice floes, sled dogs, and a traditional culture.
Daughters of the King | By Federica Valabrega Almost four years ago, I was invited for Shabbat dinner at the Garelik family in Crown Heights, a Lubavitch, Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. I had jus…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/12/daughters-of-the-king-by-federica-valabrega/
Almost four years ago, I was invited for Shabbat dinner at the Garelik family in Crown Heights, a Lubavitch, Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. I had just sat down at the table when Rabbi Yossi’s wife, Chani Garelik, took me aside and uttered to me a sentence straight from the Torah, “Col Cvuda Bat Melech Pnima,” which, translated, means “The pride of a Daughter of the King resides in the most secret depths of her soul.” She said to me that if I really wanted my photographs to speak about religious women, I first needed to understand this concept on my own.
“I wasn’t trying to be like the guy who photographed my Bar Mitzvah, someone who comes in to please everyone. I wish it was Diane Arbus who took the pictures of my Bar Mitzvah,” says Jewish-American photographer Godlis, remembering the 1974 trip to Florid
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3960-blue-sky-sunshine-white-sand-by-the-mile-en
“I wasn’t trying to be like the guy who photographed my Bar Mitzvah, someone who comes in to please everyone. I wish it was Diane Arbus who took the pictures of my Bar Mitzvah,” says Jewish-American photographer Godlis, remembering the 1974 trip to Florida that changed his life — pictures from which have just been published in the new book Godlis: Miami.
This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/paul-guilmoth-at-night-gardens-grow
This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night.
Inspired by an antique photo collection called “Wisconsin Death Trip,” Alessandra Sanguinetti went in search of her own American gothic.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographer-revisits-the-book-that-taught-her-about-dying
When the photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti was growing up in Argentina during the nineteen-seventies, her mother kept on the coffee table a copy of “Wisconsin Death Trip,” a collection of photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by Charles Van Schaick. Made in the Wisconsin city of Black River Falls, they included studio portraits of elderly residents with worn faces and worn boots, images of large families outside small clapboard houses, and several postmortem portrayals of infants laid out in their coffins. “It was my first encounter with mortality—I remember thinking, I am going to die,” Sanguinetti recalled recently. “The book also introduced me to the idea that history is subjective. I had never seen history this way before. It had always been facts. It had always been dates. It had never been a mood, a feeling.”
While many people, fearing the virus, continued to stay close to home, photographers traveled the world, documenting the world’s turmoil and triumphs.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/year-in-pictures.html
The year 2021 opened with the promise of vaccines, and the belief that we would all return to “normal” after the tumultuous year of the pandemic. But the year instead took off with an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, and saw a summer of carefree gatherings derailed by a fast-spreading virus. Governments fell, democracies were challenged, and climate-related destruction was unleashed, all while the casualties of the pandemic continued to amass. The vaccine saved some lives, but human passions, hopes and fears did their usual work to create a year that was anything but calm, and is ending with the prospect of a new variant upending plans once again.
Looking back on 2021 through images.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2021-in-review/new-yorker-photography-2021
Looking back on 2021 through images.
I’m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Tim Davis’s wry observat…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/tim-davis-i-m-looking-through-you/
I’m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Tim Davis’s wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer’s decades-long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures.
Anna Biret is an artist with a gift for seeing the world as a deeply rich place of light, contrasts, colors, textures and shapes
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/solo-exhibition/anna-biret-out-of-the-shadow
Anna Biret is an artist with a gift for seeing the world as a deeply rich place of light, contrasts, colors, textures and shapes. With this kind of vision and attitude, ordinary moments can become extraordinary — if only for the fraction of a second it takes to make a photograph.
via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/matt-black-american-geography-tale-two-countries/
A body of work made over six years — and a new photography course — shows how a commitment to social causes in photography can effect change
In 2018, photographer, filmmaker, and educator RaMell Ross released the documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening to critical acclaim, i…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/spell-time-practice-american-body-the-work-of-ramell-ross/
In 2018, photographer, filmmaker, and educator RaMell Ross released the documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening to critical acclaim, inspiring wide-ranging artistic dialogue on the nature and status of filmmaking and earning mainstream recognition through an Academy Award nomination. The film’s power to captivate is inextricably tied to Ross’ ability to connect with the individuals that inhabit the experiences rendered by his large-format photographs and DSLR video camera. Within his work, the voyeuristic construction of a subject’s narrative – typical of film and often equally so of photography and other representational modes – is deconstructed and replaced with a fluid and unencumbered aesthetics.
Pictures from Rosalind Fox Solomon’s The Forgotten introduce us to people who are chained to events in history that have permanently affected how they…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/rosalind-fox-solomon-the-forgotten-foley-gallery-ny/
Pictures from Rosalind Fox Solomon’s The Forgotten introduce us to people who are chained to events in history that have permanently affected how they live. These events can never be forgotten. They often register on the body. They act as a reminder of incidents that others would like to forget.
Happy Thanksgiving! After two years of covid and quaranting, this wonderful exhibition of family gatherings past and present, remind us of what is important: being with ones you love, being thankful for the goodness in the world, and enjoying a meal toget
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/11/the-2021-family-gatherings-exhibition/
Happy Thanksgiving! After two years of covid and quaranting, this wonderful exhibition of family gatherings past and present, remind us of what is important: being with ones you love, being thankful for the goodness in the world, and enjoying a meal together. This is a two part exhibition, so don’t miss the second half!