Jun 20Making Famous Women VictimsWhy 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…Paparazzi9 min read
Apr 12Watching Ukraine SufferWhat 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…Ukraine6 min read
Mar 4From the Most Brutal BottomMatt 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…Photography8 min read
Jan 12Power=Energy=AmericaSurrealism, 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…Surrealism10 min read
Nov 30, 2021Andy Warhol and the Photo FactoryDoes 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…Andy Warhol15 min read
Oct 9, 2021Freaks and DreamsTwo 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…Photography9 min read
Sep 9, 2021American Geography: American PathologyAmerican 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…Photography8 min read
Aug 24, 2021Life is WorkRebellion 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…Mwc Work5 min read
Jul 28, 2021Fragments in a Dream KitchenFragments in a Dream Kitchen There’s a feeling of longing as you look at Catherine Wagner’s photographs in the show called “Clues to Civilization.” You wish you could believe civilization was going to go on, but even the big shots in this world are trying to get away to space…Gallery4 min read
