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

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. It has Marcello Mastroianni playing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Rebellion is essential Rebellion is essential to me as a photographer and a writer. I am dependent on the ideas I generate for projects, and they come out of my desire to share a dissatisfaction with the world and to push us towards a more positive future. Some constants in…