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By Robyn DayJuly 1, 2013 0

In Conversation: Photographic Identity in Modern African American Art

Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Lady in Black Hat with Feathers, 1990, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. © 1990 Earlie Hudnall Interspersed throughout three galleries of vivid paintings and sculptures, the silver gelatin prints on…

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By Michael RoseJune 21, 2013 0

Reconsidering Brutalism: Viera Levitt’s Photographic Approach

Brutalism is arguably one of architecture’s most challenging styles. This mid century aesthetic is typified locally in buildings like Boston’s City Hall, built in 1968, and the campus of Southeastern Massachusetts University (now University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth), which…

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By Robyn DayJune 17, 2013 0

Doing queer photography by photographing queer doings: On the carnal strategies of Catherine Opie and Collier Schorr

What is queer photography? Do we know it when we see it? Or does the definition hold a certain slippage, the paradox of any deconstructive category? By the late 1980s, amidst a mounting backlash from conservative political factions, photographers were…

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By Robyn DayJune 10, 2013 0

Let’s Play ‘Dress Up’: The Flash Forward Festival comes to Panopticon Gallery

If you’re in the mood for Neo-Victorian drag iconography torn from the pages of comic book fantasies (and, let’s face it, who isn’t?), then Dress Up should be your next destination. On view now through September 10 at Panopticon…

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By Robyn DayMay 29, 2013 0

Charland/Stark: Backscatter and Still/Life at Gallery Kayafas

Potato Power, LaJoie Growers LLC, Van Buren, Maine 2012 #1/5 23×29″ Pigment print ©Caleb Charland We think we know how photographs are made. It’s an almost instantaneous assumption that informs our perceptions, to some degree or another, in the…

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By Robyn DayMay 22, 2013 0

Flash Forward Festival – Cultivated: New Photography from New England in the traditional style

Victoria Crayhon (Providence, RI), Untitled, Auburn, NY, 2010, from the series “Thoughts On Romance From the Road,” Archival inkjet print, 24 x 36 inches, courtesy of the artist We’re used to a certain type of photography in the New…

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By Michael RoseMay 20, 2013 0

Transformations and Disappearances: The Presence of the Artist in the Work of Francesca Woodman

The photos that Francesca Woodman created during her short life (1958-1981) are at once striking and subtle, often provocative but also playful. There is a constant character of exploration that defines her production. Among all of the concepts Woodman plays…

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By Bonnie BMay 16, 2013 0

Flash Forward Festival – Photography on the Greenway: The Fence Comes to Boston

Let’s face it: if you need a 2D artwork that can endure extended exposure to sun, rain, wind, and “direct engagement” in various forms by wildlife, children, and the random flung object, you won’t be calling on watercolors or…

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By Robyn DayMay 5, 2013 0

Visual Poetics: David Hilliard’s Photographic Tale at Carroll and Sons Gallery

David Hilliard The Tale is True (DH237) from A Tale is True 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston. It’s only right that The Tale is True come to Boston’s Carroll and Sons Gallery. I’ve been…

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By Robyn DayApril 30, 2013 0

A New Idea for New Topographics: Toshio Shibata, ‘Constructed Landscapes’ at the Peabody Essex Museum

The opening reception of Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes at PEM on Wednesday April 17 drew well over 200 visitors, from affiliated artists to friends of the museum (which includes, as it turns out, the consulate of Japan in Boston),…

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By Bonnie BApril 28, 2013 0

Abelardo Morell: “My Life in Pictures . . . So Far”

PHSNE President John Dockery, Abe Morell, PRC staff member and former Morell student Julie Kukharenko, and Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis. Photo by Rene Ricciardi. Courtesy of the Photographic Resource Center Cuban-born, Boston-based Abelardo Morell has been exploring the very nature…

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By Bonnie BMarch 27, 2013 0

Inventing Remembered Moments: Alternative Processes at the PRC

Liz Lee, Sun Prints Image Courtesy of the Artist A show of alternative-process photos could be anything these days — from the historic analog (chemical) processes to non-standard digital manipulations to printing on atypical materials, and beyond. The PRC’s “Unconventional…

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By Robyn DayMarch 13, 2013 0

Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s ‘Interiors’ and Lynn Saville’s ‘Vacancy’ at Gallery Kayafas

The decision to pair Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s Interiors with Lynn Saville’s Vacancy is so compelling that I expected it to have been a curatorial strategy as carefully crafted as military tactics. But longtime gallery director and owner Arlette Kayafas knows the…

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By Matthew KuhlmanMarch 12, 2013 0

Studio Sessions: John Steck Jr.

My guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is photographer John Steck, Jr. John earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, and is currently finishing up his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute.…

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By Robyn DayFebruary 25, 2013 0

Bruce Davidson: Witness at Robert Klein Gallery and Ars Libri

So you’ve seen Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street at the Museum of Fine Arts and just can’t help wanting more? That is quite possibly the third of life’s proverbial certainties, and the only one worth indulging. Fortunately, all you have…

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By Stephanie CardonFebruary 14, 2013 0

sübSamsøn: 2. Carlos Jiménez Cahua, artist in residence

Carlos Jiménez Cahua Untitled #65.p (My [Aesthetic] Vocabulary Did This To Me; bicubic), 2012 Tiff file, dimensions variable This is part two of a conversation about the artist-in-residence program sübSamsøn, directed by Camilo Alvarez, interviewed a few days ago. The…

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By Robyn DayFebruary 11, 2013 0

“What you call a ghetto, I call home.” Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street at the Museum of Fine Arts

There’s no question that Bruce Davidson is a lion of twentieth century photography, and with good reason. His silver gelatin prints are atmospheric, transporting viewers to a rough and tumble 1960s Harlem neighborhood. Like the work of Lewis Hine, Walker…

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By Bonnie BDecember 12, 2012 0

Why You Should Go See Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency at the ICA

How’s this for a photographer’s dirty little secret: I often end up wishing I hadn’t gone out of my way to see a photography show in a gallery. I’ve been disappointed too many times by walls full of crappy digital…

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By Renée DoucetteNovember 17, 2012 0

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

From the birth of photography, landscapes often found themselves the subject of the experimental process. Early photography was arguably more time consuming than that of its painting counterpart. A photograph required a more complex process for success causing a greater…

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By Evan F. SmithNovember 12, 2012 0

Second Nature: abstract photography then and now

Second nature: abstract photography then and now is a lot more “now” than “then.” Loud, crowded and eye-pleasing, the show has a lot to look at, but doesn’t immediately beg an intensive viewing. Hung salon-style in a smallish second floor…

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