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. 258

Aperture presents “Photography & Painting,” featuring artists from around the world who draw inspiration from both mediums in their work, illuminating how the dialogue between camera and canvas continues to unfold today in fascinating, unexpected ways.

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