How to See the World
Introducing a distinctly academic field to general readers is not easy. In his new book How to See the World, the eminent theorist of visual culture Nicholas Mirzoeff undertakes the task of introducing visual...
Author: nannyrhops
Made at Roaming
Reproduced here is one of many images made recently at Roaming Penzance (see www.roamingCIC.com for more about the organization). Given that the group meets just once a week, and then only for a...
Luxury
Luxus — Luxury — is the title of Lambert Wiesing’s most recent book, published by Surkamp in August this year. I’ve translated the introduction, which proposes that that luxury is not a quality inherent...
Burning Bread
“Prepared” by having been in a slow oven overnight, the loaf that appears in Charlie Sinclair’s fine image Burning Bread is perhaps nearly incredible but not quite. In fact it’s perfectly “straight” photography: the bread has become...
Photographic Seriality: Sameness and Difference
Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth are three very prominent contemporary art photographers. All three were students of Berndt and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, all work in series. They often–not always–work...
Photographs and family
Photographs have some effect on “family,” but I seriously doubt whether they actually consolidate or construct it. The idea comes first, I think, and the photographs shore it up. Whatever elusive idea actually ties...