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By Michael RoseJuly 9, 2015 0

Early Exposures: 19th Century Photography at the RISD Museum

Photography is arguably the most popular medium for visual expression in the contemporary world. With the ever-increasing availability of digital cameras, billions of people have access to photographic technology. Millions of photographs are shared daily on social media detailing the…

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By Ian DeleónFebruary 23, 2015 0

Like fragments of marble sculpture, un disparate

“Information is never innocent. Its toxicity depends on who is consuming—and who is consumed.” from “Material Witness” by David Joselit, Artforum, February 2015 During the October 14th episode of his radio program On Point, Tom…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigOctober 9, 2014 0

FUMES: After “Edward Hopper and Photography” at the Whitney Museum of Art

1. Lights are coming on everywhere you look tonight. The flickering shutter of cameras announce (whisper) everybody already knew how to take photographs of television screens before you even thought to change. Women stand in something greater than the misunderstanding…

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By Tom McGlynnSeptember 22, 2014 0

Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness” at MoMA

What happens when interlocking systems of institutional assumptions about aesthetic valence are deployed as an over-mined field of critical data? How does a shopping list of representative art historical tropes morph into a dynamic rhetorical narrative to unpack those very…

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By Eunice Hurd & Maja OrsicSeptember 22, 2014 0

Video Profile: Sarah Malakoff

Nest. Cave. Den. When we speak about our homes, the spaces we have carved out for ourselves in the world, we speak of them in terms once reserved for animal habitats. Like crows and magpies, drawn to bright plastics and…

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By Matthew KuhlmanJuly 31, 2014 0

Studio Sessions: Chuck Chaney

Welcome to the Studio Sessions podcast, this time with guest Chuck Chaney. Chuck earned a BA from the Brooks Institute of Photography in 1992, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2008.…

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By Thomas StubblefieldMay 21, 2014 0

Review: Apophenia: Harvey Goldman

On the wall of Harvey Goldman’s studio hang several prints by the 19th century pioneer of photographic motion studies, Étienne-Jules Marey. Motivated by an obsession with physiology and aerodynamics, Marey sought to reconfigure the photographic apparatus in order to capture…

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By Matthew KuhlmanMay 7, 2014 0

Studio Sessions: Stephanie Goode

Welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Stephanie Goode. Stephanie earned her BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004. She is a photographer that has compiled a large body of photographic work that documents pieces…

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By Edmond CaldwellMarch 26, 2014 0

Studio Visit: Bahar Yurukoglu

Bahar Yurukoglu Purple Sky I first encountered Bahar Yurukoglu’s work before I knew it was Bahar Yurukoglu’s. I remember walking into Primordial Future, her installation at the deCordova Biennial, because of the way its frozen geometries and shifting lights imposed…

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By Robyn DayMarch 11, 2014 0

Review: David Taylor: Working the Line

The US-Mexico border is not exactly a welcoming place for documentary photographers. And yet, for the past seven years, David Taylor has been photographing across 690 miles of that politically rigid, and altogether socially porous, demarcation. In that time, he…

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By Robyn DayJanuary 22, 2014 0

Review: John Coplans: Hands

Those of us with our heads in the clouds of art theory sometimes forget that it’s enough to take pleasure in looking at photographs. I have to remind myself that the materiality of works of art can surpass the concepts…

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By Matthew KuhlmanJanuary 9, 2014 0

Studio Sessions: Letha Wilson

Welcome to Studio Sessions with our latest guest, Letha Wilson. Letha earned her BFA in Painting from Syracuse University in 1998, and her MFA in combined media from Hunter College in New York in 2003. She incorporates images…

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By Stephanie ArnettDecember 19, 2013 0

Review: LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS

Forget objectivity; LaToya Ruby Frazier is an activist at heart. Frazier operates on the inside, and her photography cannot be adequately judged within the category of journalism. Although her photographs invite comparison to the iconic WPA photographs of Dorothea Lange…

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By Robyn DayNovember 26, 2013 0

Review: Vivian Maier: A Woman’s Lens

At Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center through December 18, Vivian Maier: A Woman’s Lens may be the first exhibition of the elusive (some would say, reclusive) photographer’s work in the Greater Boston area, but it coincides with Self-Portraits…

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By Bonnie BSeptember 18, 2013 0

Not Playing Around: The Somerville Toy Camera Festival

“Toy camera” used to mean just that—a cheap plastic camera produced as a toy and sold or given away for use by children. In the past decade, as film photography overall has been outpaced a gazillion-fold by digital image-making, this…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigAugust 19, 2013 0

23 EXIT SIGNS: After Road Trip at the Gallery at Atlantic Wharf

EXIT 1 ↗ The entire history of America is based on rediscovering what has already been found. Picture yourself, late for work, searching for your car keys and eyeglasses only to hear the Hyundai exhaling exhaust fumes out back in…

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By Robyn DayAugust 5, 2013 0

An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection

Believe it or not, An Enduring Vision was an exhibition catalog before it ever reached the Herb Ritts Gallery, published by the MFA in 2011. And it was part and parcel of a collection of some 6,000 photographs before being…

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By Robyn DayJuly 29, 2013 0

Pre-Existing Condition: At Yellow Peril Gallery

Title: “Limbic” Artist: Kathryn Parker Almanas Exhibit: Pre-Existing Condition Gallery: Yellow Peril Gallery There are only seven photographs in the first gallery, but they pack a punch to the gut. The immediate response upon walking through the door is…

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By Robyn DayJuly 22, 2013 0

Harold Feinstein’s Coney Island Summer: On view at Panopticon Gallery

Harold Feinstein,Two Men & a Boy Contemplate, Coney Island, 1950 “It’s a nickel a question,” he joked. At that point, I suppose I already owed Harold Feinstein five cents, since I had just asked if I could ask him…

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By Sarah PollmanJuly 15, 2013 0

Bruce Myren: Landing at Zero

Bruce Myren’s The Fortieth Parallel is a project of western depiction. Rooted in history, it takes cues from historic survey projects and their subsequent rephotographic cousins, Ed Ruscha’s explorations of buildings on Sunset Strip and the New Topographers’ unromantic views…

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