Elliott Erwitt :: PERSONAL BEST
Think of Elliott Erwitt, and an iconographic image that comes to mind is his photograph of an anxious, sweatered Chihuahua dwarfed by the boots of its owner and the colossal front feet and legs of a...
View ArticleSanteri Tuori
A small boy struggles to don a red shirt. A little girl spins and dances, engages the camera, forgets it. A woman alone in a room with a camera shifts in her chair, changing her expression as she falls...
View ArticleEZRA STOLLER The Art of Architecture
I was born into the world documented by Ezra Stoller, into that contagion of post-war, don’t-look-back American optimism that proliferated even in my native South. My father and his siblings had left...
View ArticleEMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA The Archaeology of Family
Emily Hanako Momohara creates conceptual landscapes in homage to her Japanese and Hawaiian heritage. Intrigued by collective memory and its relationship to the imagination, her images combine the real...
View ArticleGARRY WINOGRAND Student of America
Garry Winogrand’s body of work is as big and sprawling as the country he documented. It’s said that over two million people — roughly one percent of the U.S. population in the 1960s — were captured by...
View ArticleRAY K. METZKER Photography’s Alchemist
In a career spanning six decades, Ray K. Metzker, who called himself “an intellectual wanderer,” created images of rare variety and intensity that reflected his commitment to exploring blackandwhite...
View ArticleANITA DOUTHAT: Emissary Of Light
Over the past 20 years, as photography has become increasingly hands-off, Anita Douthat has literally run the other way — and, one might say, into the light. Produced without a camera, her photograms...
View ArticleELENA DORFMAN: Wandering In The Uncanny Valley
There’s an unspoken agreement between artist and viewer that runs through Elena Dorfman’s work — “leave your visual comfort zone, give yourself over to the image and I’ll take you to a place unlike...
View ArticleGORDON PARKS: Back to Fort Scott
“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty — the memory of that beginning influences my work today.” Gordon Parks Everything is about timing, especially the news. With our instantaneous...
View ArticleIMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: In Focus
Best known for her sharp-focus modernist images from the 1920s and 30s, Imogen Cunningham, who died in 1976, worked in a myriad of styles. Admired to the point of reverence for her seven decades of...
View ArticleDIANE ARBUS: In The Beginning
You never forget your first Arbus. In the early 1980s, I worked for legendary art dealer Harry Lunn, whose vision and impact first established photography as a thriving component of the art market. An...
View ArticleTRIA GIOVAN: The Cuba Archive
Bus Stop March. Havana, Cuba, 1992 © Tria Giovan In Walker Evans: A Biography, by Belinda Rathbone (Mariner Books, 2000), the photographer expresses the compulsion to document life. “It’s as though...
View ArticleSALLY MANN: A Thousand Crossings
Larry Shaving, 1991 © SALLY MANN The end is coming for us all, and if you don't believe it, Sally Mann's work heralds a poignant and impactful reminder. Memory, family, place, desire, death. Mann's...
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