Janet Malcolm

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Janet Malcolm’s Life in Snapshots

In her final book, Malcolm reflects on her career-long preoccupation with photography—and considers memory as both muse and captor.
Bill Owens, My wife is a realtor, 1972

Why Janet Malcolm’s Photography Criticism Still Resonates

Forty years after the publication of her collected essays on photography, Malcolm’s writing offers the pleasure of seeing a great mind grapple with the medium.
Tamara Shopsin & Jason Fulford, Photo-illustration (after Kenneth Josephson), 2014

Geoff Dyer and Janet Malcolm on Photography and Writing

Two critics speak about how good writing on images begins with an urge to “keep looking.”

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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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