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The history of curiosity reminds us that accidents will happen, and instructs its contemporary adepts how to be waiting when they do.
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As Divola notes, “Being here is a practical consideration—it’s very inexpensive, convenient, clean, and air conditioned.”
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Crucially, this exhibition undermines a tendency to canonize Blossfeldt exclusively as a modernist art photographer.
Smalley's distance from photography allows him to approach broader ontological questions: What is an image? How do images circulate within the technologies of contemporary culture?
Brian Dillon considers perspective, observation, and enlightenment found at the periphery.
Jonathan Griffin visits photographer John Divola in advance of three simultaneous retrospectives.
Evans discusses works from his ongoing series Pictures for looking at, drawing for photography.
Images and video of Richard Mosse’s installation at the Venice Biennale.
An essay on Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté, via Creative Time Reports.
Sarah James reviews a survey of Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Lorenzo Durantini discusses Travess Smalley’s productive yet challenging relationship to photography.
Interview with designer Hans Gremmen about Rinko Kawauchi’s new book, Ametsuchi.
What provokes us to pursue something, to want to find out more?
Lisa Oppenheim teases apart the individual steps of picture-making, wringing from the medium’s technical apparatus a surprisingly broad range of meanings.
Images from Martin Parr’s Beach Party and Portrait Shoot at Aperture Gallery.
Photographer Anne Hardy speaks about her new exhibition of photographs and sculptures at Maureen Paley, London.
After lengthy deliberations, Aperture Foundation has selected the winner of the #MyApertureMag Instagram competition.
