The Lies of LEE MILLER: Hiding in Plain Sight This picture is nearly a hundred years old, and it’s still “a knockout”, even if the word from that era has gone out of fashion along with nude pictures of women. But this is one of the few photographs of Lee…

Her gift as a writer was to get you to see the survivor in seemingly self-destructive women. Do you recognize this elderly woman? What if I told you that she was one of the greatest novelists who has ever lived; admired for the economy in her writing about sexual exploitation…

Why we love our paparazzi. In 1960, Federico Fellini made a movie called La Dolce Vita, The Sweet Life; with a title like that it was obviously a satire. Or a tragedy? Maybe every satire is a tragedy. This one is now considered a classic. …

What are we seeing? What are we doing? With Ukraine, we have decided to be onlookers. We cannot go in, so we have to suffer by watching, trying to see the truth in the lies. But for Vladimir Putin there are no lies, only opportunities to play with the truth…

Matt Black’s emotional evidence in photographs. Matt Black, American Geography Exhibition at Robert Koch Gallery 49 Geary St, 5th floor, San Francisco February 5 — March 26, 2022 I feel for the photographer Matt Black because right now if you’re trying to move people with tragedy, take a number. But…

Surrealism, the second Atom Bomb and the iPhone… Fotofiber, November 29, 2021 — January 28, 2022, Robert Mann Gallery, 14 East 80th Street, Penthouse, New York City Surrealism Beyond Borders, October 11, 2021– January 30, 2022, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City AND February 24…

Does it matter what he did and didn’t actually touch? The policy at Fotografiska New York — the new satellite of Fotografiska Stockholm — is to travel as lightly as an immigrant. They own no photographs. They sell no photographs. They are a showplace. And that is meant to keep…

Two of the most popular and challenging photographers in the history of the medium at the Fraenkel Gallery, natch. In back-to-back exhibitions — Diane Arbus (1923–1971) curated by Carrie Mae Weems (1953-) at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco (June 3-August 13) and Carrie Mae Weems by the Fraenkel Gallery…

American Geography: American Pathology “It’s complicated…” In the news, as I write, there is the report that Walmart, the largest employer in the world of more than 2.3 million people, has imposed vaccination mandates on its white-collar workers but not on the laborers who meet the public. What better example is there of American…