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Category Archives: What Makes It Great?
Modica’s Best Friends | May 19, 2012
Great news: Andrea Modica has a showing at Gallery 339 in Center City Philadelphia through July 21, 2012! For fans of the “slow food” movement, let me recommend to you “slow photography”, which results in the same sort of intensely … Continue reading
Natural Histories | May 5, 2012
For an entirely new take on the “environmental portrait”, see Barbara Bosworth’s show at the Peabody Essex Museum through May 2013. Bosworth’s family members appear, dream-like, in the environs of her childhood home and various other places she holds dear. … Continue reading
A Mind’s Eye | April 23, 2012
A comprehensive 50-year retrospective of images by Jerry Uelsmann is at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts through July 15, 2012. The conceptual father of Photoshop, Uelsmann has been disseminating his philosophical views by constructing photographs with image components … Continue reading
Silver, Salt & Sun | March 16, 2012
Europe’s earliest photographers faced significant practical challenges from the sheer size of their bulky equipment to the portable darkrooms they carted with them everywhere. Their elementary, home-made recipes for developing a print required precise preparation and no small amount of … Continue reading
Josephine Sacabo | March 4, 2012
Mardi Gras may be over, but there’s still something wonderful to see in New Orleans. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is currently hosting an expansive retrospective exhibit of New Orleans-based photographer Josephine Sacabo. Working in a self-described “very subjective … Continue reading
What Makes It Great? | July 15, 2011
Man Ray & Lee Miller: “Partners in Surrealism” At the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts through December 4, 2011, “Partners in Surrealism”, explores the individual and combined efforts of a pillar of the Surrealist movement, … Continue reading
Edward Weston | April 16, 2011
What Makes It Great? Edward Weston was a photographic pioneer, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and my personal idol. If you even need an excuse to go visit the new Art of the Americas … Continue reading
Rachel Perry Welty | March 27, 2011
What makes it great? So many contemporary artists interpret the state of world affairs in ways meant to shock, disturb and provoke viewers. It is a rare artist who can transform the daily assault of our … Continue reading
Lucien Aigner | January 22, 2011
What Makes It Great? Lucien Aigner was one of the first great photojournalists in the illustrious age of editorial photographers. An exhibition of his work opens at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA on February … Continue reading
Richard Avedon | January 17, 2011
What Makes It Great? While all the buzz in Boston currently centers on the newly opened Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, my spirit took flight at the “Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000” exhibit … Continue reading