This week the judging period for “Click!”–the crowd-curated exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum–closed. I evaluated roughly 250 of the almost 400 photographs online. It was really a mixed bag; every twenty photos or so, there was an image that really popped out from the rest. Whether we’ll end up seeing all those […]
For those of you hitting up the inaugural New York Photo Festival this weekend, I’ve done a quick run-through and picked out favorites among the exhibits. Unfortunately, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked–I had to catch a train down south, so I only had about 2.5 hours there. […]
A few weeks ago, I stopped by the Met to check out their “Photography On Photography” show. While it was fine, I was more impressed with another show that I stumbled into while I was there: Lee Friedlander’s Olmstead Park commissions. The Times review that appeared in January was mildly interesting (especially the […]
Despite the unimpressed response from the blogosphere (see here and here), I think this year’s AIPAD marks a significant improvement over last year’s. AIPAD ‘07 sticks in my mind as a bunch of galleries trying to sell the same non-vintage Kertesz and Lartigue prints around every corner. While there’s still plenty of late […]
Three mid-February Chelsea picks from my Wednesday ramblings:
Bruce Yonemoto @ Alexander Gray Associates
Through March 15
Yonemoto’s latest work consists of photos of Asian Americans in Civil War costumes taken from Hollywood costume suppliers. The images, shot in a palette that resembles early Technicolor film, inhabit a dream space between Civil War cartes de visite, race […]
A post on MAO and the provocative imagery (a photographer of fire?) drew me to Sarah Pickering’s show “Fire Scene” at Daniel Cooney Fine Art. I knew next to nothing about her, but as I looked over her images, I became increasingly excited. Each photograph confronted me with an elaborate detective story. […]
Something in me didn’t want to warm to Bertien van Manen’s photographic exploration of post-Cold-War Russia at Yancey Richardson. I like photography with a strong conceptual backing. I distrust “street shooters” and their ilk (see my post on Alex Webb here), and documentary, as a genre, feels cluttered with photographers who depend on […]
291 stupidly missed the Jeff Wall retrospective when it passed through MoMA last year. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that, as a part of my holiday travels to London, I’d have the chance to see both Jeff Wall and White Cube, Mason’s Yard at the same time–Wall’s show at White […]
Last night 291 stopped by Aperture to see old friends and catch the talk and book signing by Hans Eijkelboom.
Eijkelboom is an amazing and ridiculously underappreciated Dutch conceptual photographer. Aperture just published a book of his work entitled Paris|New York|Shanghai, which represents a selection from a larger body of work called “Photo Notes.” […]
Kent Rogowski’s photographic work marks the third show this year at Foley Gallery that appears to encourage a distinctly consumerist view of pictures.
That’s not a bad thing. The purpose of galleries, lest we all forget, is to persuade enthusiasts to purchase art–even art that sells itself as a critique of capitalism. Rugowski’s show […]
