On the occasion of a traveling exhibition, Diana Stoll meditates on Man Ray’s portraits.
Sarah James ponders the Mass Observation project, now surveyed at Photographers’ Gallery in London.
Prajna Desai reviews the Abelardo Morell retrospective now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Joanna Fiduccia considers the uses of aerial photography in her review of Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above.
Chris Wiley reviews A Different Kind of Order, the fourth ICP Triennial, on view in New York through September 22.
Susie Linfield reviews Memory of Fire, a new collection of essays and interviews edited by Julian Stallabrass. Updated July 24 with an exchange of letters between the authors.
Schuyler Duffy reviews Terry Evans’s exhibition The Inhabited Prairie, now on view in New York.
Sarah James reviews a survey of Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Tampering with photographs is common practice for artists today; this exhibition demonstrated that the strategy is even more relevant for Middle Eastern photographers.
Willie Doherty’s latest body of work focuses on the sense of alienation to be found in Zurich’s peripheral spaces. Martin Jaeggi assesses the photographs and video.
Prajna Desai reviews A Village in Bengal, an exhibition of Chirodeep Chaudhuri’s photographs at Project 88, Mumbai.
Critic Noemi Smolik reviews the recent exhibition Dear Aby Warburg, What Can Be Done with Images?
Isabel Stevens reviews Dayanita Singh: File Museum, an exhibition of a new work at Frith Street Gallery, London.
Isabel Stevens reviews Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Fourteen shows consider how the camera, rather than just being an instrument of mediation, might sometimes take hold of reality instead.
Independent curator Daniel M. Leers reports on the First National Bank Johannesburg Art Fair.
Vicki Goldberg reviews two exhibitions at the Addison Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts.
Aperture’s publisher of books recommends a New York gallery stop, an exceptional DIY title, and one book she’s currently reading.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
Dear Aby Warburg, What Can Be Done with Images?
Critic Noemi Smolik reviews the recent exhibition Dear Aby Warburg, What Can Be Done with Images?