Category: Reviews
Discovery – Preservation – Revelation – Review of “John Baer – The Extraordinary Ordinary: A Memoir in Photographs, 1945-1954”
Imagine the mourning and the joy— John Baer was born in 1920 and died in 1994. He was a soldier
On the Why of the How of the What – Review of “The Art of Street Photography” by Joshua K. Jackson and Sean Tucker
Once Upon a Time I saw a video of a female comedian talking about the way men follow instructions. Step
An Intimate Body Politic – Review of “Civics” by William Meyers
There is an interesting distinction to be made within our relationships to politics. Politicians, the men and women themselves, are
The Space Between Us – Review of “Archipelago” by Yolanda del Amo
There are 1000 ways to judge the quality of a photograph. Most of them rest within the frame—composition, light, etcetera—but
Ming Smith: Radical Intuition and the Fluid Rhythm of Light, by Silvia Ionna
At the 2026 Les Rencontres d’Arles international photography festival, the exhibition Lueur nomade—dedicated to the American photographer Ming Smith and
Urban Visions — Review of “Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography“ at Dulwich Picture Gallery, by Can Heilmaier
The city has long been a subject in photography, a place in which the inexhaustible rhythm of life is revealed
Ghastly & Fine – Review of “Vanitas” by Matthew Rolston
First impressions count. Yes, it’s a cliché, but it’s also true. Every book designer knows you can’t judge a book
“Mirror Moments, At Rest and in Motion: Consider Dwelling Here Too Long”, by Katya Borkov
I duck into the dollar store for a mask before venturing into the haze of wildfire smoke, which hangs over
An Other Look – Review of “Faces in the Rocks: Beyond Landscapes to Psycho-Geological Photography” by Joel Simpson
I believe every single one of us who has ever taken a landscape photograph, stood in front of one, or
Review of “Everything is Photograph: A Life of Andre Kertész” by Patricia Albers
The biography is a curious genre. There is always a backstory to a life we may know. Whether it’s someone
A Now from Then – Review of “The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe” by David Kaufman
Every photographer is a historian. Every time we press the shutter release, we are capturing a moment and preserving it.
Immensities – Review of “Same Sun Same Moon” by Michael Kenna and Pico Iyer
There is something wonderfully promising about a duet. Two voices, placed next to each other, perhaps in harmony, perhaps both
pic*ture – tr. v. – Review of “Amherstburg: Picture A River Town” by Marty Gervais
There’s nothing special, or even all that original, about saying that a photographer’s real subject is light. Light and shadow,
Nuance and Conversation – Review of “Life Still” by Lee Friedlander
A phrase we all remember from growing up is this: One of these things is not like the other. Of
Inside and Out – Review of “Framing The World” by Kinga Owczennikow
I have often wondered why we are so in love with geometry. Shapes of any sort have always called to