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talks & interviews
The Biennale Embracing Fear and Ambiguity in Photography
Ahead of an ambitious exhibition in Germany, curator David Campany speaks about the lives of images.
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In This Film Series, Queer Sex Is Front and Center
From Andy Warhol to Marlon Riggs, MoMA presents film as a radical expression of sexuality and activism.
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Revisiting African Portraiture, Through the Female Gaze
Sandrine Colard and Laurence Butet-Roch examine the history of how African women have been pictured, and in turn, how they look back at the viewer.
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All That Glitters is Fool’s Gold
From the gold rush to e-waste, Lisa Barnard’s new photobook offers a visual biography of a precious commodity.
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How to Map a Territory that You Don’t Own
Mitch Epstein discusses Standing Rock, the American flag, and the moment he saw Mount Rushmore cry.
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Tommy Kha Isn’t Kissing You Back
The Memphis-born photographer navigates performative intimacy, the legacy of the Mississippi Delta Chinese, and the pitfalls of visual language for queer Asian men.
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At Mariane Ibrahim’s New Chicago Gallery, an Otherworldly Portrait Series
Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition of radically speculative character portraits inaugurates the midwest home of a leading American gallery.
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A Chronicle of Midwestern Masculinity
Gregory Halpern’s newest photobook is a nuanced portrait of golden-hour Omaha.
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Michael Jang’s American Dream
The photographer revisits his deeply funny and idiosyncratic images of suburbs, celebrities, and California in the 1970s.
