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"During different phases of his work, Metzker described photography both as a vacuum cleaner used to suck up every detail and as a process like collecting butterflies."
"If this land is to survive humanity’s most destructive impulses, perhaps a first step is to undo the Marlboro Country mythology of the West: to question, to see again, to see anew."
"Are we to suspend any documentary claim and engage with these pictures as fictions, like film stills or theater publicity photographs?"
"The deserts of Arizona and California are many things to many people, and they are also certainly graveyards, landscapes now defined by human remains."
Ray K. Metzker spent his career exploring the boundaries of photography in order to break them.
Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, and Justine Kurland deconstruct the mythology of the Wild West.
The photographer’s psychological portraits cast a unifying light around the world.
In remote stretches of desert, Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo record traces of volunteer efforts—and attempts by Border Patrols to stop them.
In Florida, Kathryn Harrison photographs her mother and brother with fearless intensity.
At home in Japan, Motoyuki Daifu captures his family with gleeful candor.
Keith Smith on the elaborate art of sequencing pictures.
Susan Ressler revels in the immaculate offices of days gone by.
For Roma Publications, the artist’s vision is front and center.
In dizzying sequences, the irreverent photographer embraces risk and failure.
In the city of Lianzhou, visions of global power collide with official censorship.
