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...
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...
By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy Here we are at holiday time, steeling ourselves for a winter of shrunken, separate celebrations during one of the most surreal and trying periods in our collective memory. More than ever, we long for personal companionship and the look and feel of genuine articles. Thankfully,...
By Suzanne Révy A traveler wanders in a foreign land and makes pictures of places that are novel to his eyes. Another wanders the maze of streets in his urban neighborhood, photographing everyday pedestrians on sidewalks, children playing and a parade of crawling cars. Both have camera and film, pursuing...
“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” ― Charlotte Brontë By Elin Spring Here at What Will You Remember?, we like to compose themed, comparative book reviews. Fortunately,...
By Suzanne Révy A friend, who is a writer, invited me to join a group called “Morning Pages” back in March at the start of the lockdown. With a backdrop of pandemic and protests, I wake each morning to write in a stream-of-consciousness manner and it has proven to be a help in alleviating the […]
By Suzanne Révy Creating a collection of photographs can be as expressive an act as making them. The pursuit of images reveals the passions of a singular vision and gives rise to dialogs between sometimes disparate ideas. Frazier King is an accomplished photographer and collector whose own work alongside...
I am the rest between two notes, Which are somehow always in discord Because Death’s note wants to climb over – But in the dark interval, reconciled, They stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful. ~Rainer Maria Rilke By Elin Spring Who could use a dose of magical realism right...
