Four years of Executive Office bullying and abhorrent rhetoric have led to a rise in hate crimes and violence against minority groups, culminating last month in the Atlanta mass shooting of six Asian American women. Institutional racism and personal prejudice have deep roots in this country, especially...
At long last, we begin to emerge from one of the most earthshaking years in living memory. What better time to consider other game changers and cultural inflection points in our American story? Four absorbing and distinctive photographic perspectives do just that at Gallery Kayafas in Boston’s SoWa...
Got wanderlust? After an unprecedented and extremely long year trapped at home, the ability to get out and about again is arriving with that energizing infusion of light we call springtime. It's enough to make you break out in song or, say, start venturing out to see art in person again. Safely, of course....
Doubtless, you have heard someone declare, “there is a method to my madness!” For others it might be said that there is a madness to their method. Both may be delightfully true in Digits: A Parallel Universe, a group exhibition of eleven artists who employ a potpourri of digital image manipulations...
By Suzanne Révy and Elin Spring It’s women’s history month! Below, we review three recently published books about two pioneering early 20th century west coast photographers, Anne Brigman and Imogen Cunningham. Anne Brigman (1869-1950) could arguably be called the “mother of Modernist photography”...
by Suzanne Révy The New Woman Behind the Camera, curated and edited by Andrea Nelson, Associate Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art and Mia Fineman, Curator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, sets out to define the modernist movement from the 1920’s to the 1950’s and highlight...
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)– Though some savants make earth include the sky; And blue so far above us comes so […]
By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy Photography exhibits open to the public in March are mostly shows held over from February. We are including them here along with newly opened shows, arranged geographically for your planning convenience. Operating galleries and museums are continuing to enforce pandemic...
By Elin Spring In Part Two of A Way With Words, we examine three photo books that feature allusive lyricism or cunning journalistic text. Sandi Haber Fifield’s The Certainty of Nothing, Rebecca Norris Webb’s Night Calls and Amani Willett’s A Parallel Road take an oblique written approach to guide...
By Elin Spring Photography has come a long way since its inception in the early 1800’s, developing into a field that has altered every other art form in the process. The current fusion of photography with other media echoes the trajectory of global interconnectedness, challenging preconceived notions...
