Reviews of photography and other art exhibits
There is likely no serious text on the history of photography that fails to mention at least a few Hungarian-born photographers. It is impossible to ignore the contributions of Robert…
If it is to be successful, a photography exhibit, much like an individual photograph, must not only be visually compelling, but also make some connection to the human experience. As…
A slight, and at first puzzling, sense of disappointment came over me as I exited A Thousand Crossings, the otherwise totally engrossing Sally Mann retrospective recently on exhibit at the…
Every now and then there is a photography exhibit that offers, if not the truly novel, then at least the truly fresh, that is, a wonderfully different expression of familiar…
In this era of pyrotechnic digital imagery and ubiquitous arm-length photography, the current photography exhibit at the Denver Art Museum—Kenneth Josephson: Encounters with the Universe—may not, at first glance, seem…
The best visual art tends to possess these qualities: it engages the mind even as it captures the eye. Visual art missing both traits is a disaster; visual art missing…
Seeing in Passing: Photographs by Chuck Forsman, the current photography exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, once again demonstrates Curator of Photography Eric Paddock’s willingness to show lesser known photographers,…
Having recently posted an essay on art photography’s trend away from the dominance of photons to the dominance of pixels (see my essay Of Comets and Pixels ) I suppose…
To a certain extent, all fine art photographers follow Minor White’s dictum to capture the subjects of their work “not only for what they are, but what else they are.”…
Street Photography is Alive, Well and Evolving One of the earliest known photographs, View of Boulevard du Temple (Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1839), not only introduced photography to the world,…
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