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Black in the Rose Garden: Sarah Jones at Anton Kern Gallery

Daniel Blight reflects on Sarah Jones’s recent solo show.

The Myth of Vivian Maier

Madeline Coleman on Finding Vivian Maier, a new documentary opening in U.S. theaters on Friday, March 28, 2014.

Changing Paris

Mary Panzer reviews the Charles Marville exhibition, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until May 4, 2014.

Subversive Desires

Isabel Stevens on Whitechapel Gallery’s retrospective exhibition of Dadaist artist Hannah Höch, on view through March 23, 2014.

Cities, Real or Imagined: LagosPhoto 2013

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen on the fourth iteration of the Nigeria-based international photography festival, LagosPhoto 2013.

Pictures in Motion

Isabel Stevens reviews Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography, David S. Shields’s survey of American photography from cinema’s silent era.

Man Ray: Portraits

On the occasion of a traveling exhibition, Diana Stoll meditates on Man Ray’s portraits.

The Mass Observation exhibition at Photographers' Gallery, London

Sarah James ponders the Mass Observation project, now surveyed at Photographers’ Gallery in London.

Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door

Prajna Desai reviews the Abelardo Morell retrospective now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The View from Above: The Science of Social Space

Joanna Fiduccia considers the uses of aerial photography in her review of Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above.

Picking Up the Pieces

Chris Wiley reviews A Different Kind of Order, the fourth ICP Triennial, on view in New York through September 22.

Embedded Images

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 on Terry Evans

Schuyler Duffy reviews Terry Evans’s exhibition The Inhabited Prairie, now on view in New York.

Karl Blossfeldt at the Whitechapel Gallery

Sarah James reviews a survey of Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Isabel Stevens – Review of Light from the Middle East at the V&A

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 – Without Trace – Zurich

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.

Chirodeep Chaudhuri – A Village in Bengal

Prajna Desai reviews A Village in Bengal, an exhibition of Chirodeep Chaudhuri’s photographs at Project 88, Mumbai.

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?
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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