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“In the Society of X no one remained immune to the allure of the Games. ...”
Another NY Photo Plus
“In case you were wondering, the King of Jordan was fully clothed....”
Norman Borden
PhotoSynthesis: Before Photography
“A gem of a show at the Morgan library is on display to remind us what was required to capture a likeness before the advent of the camera.”
Barbara Confino
PhotoSynthesis:<br />Fashion and the Times
“the work and decade featured in the new ICP Bazaar show is less characterized by perversity than it is by parody and pastiche.”
Barbara Confino
Family Album
“One of my first reactions to this image of Amelia is one of loss. No, not loss as you think I mean, but loss in that our culture has largely lost its appreciation for black and white photography.”
R. Wayne Parsons
Chelsea Photo Walkabout
This week the NYPR walks into the wilds of Chelsea to report on what’s happening in the photo world -- under and above the High Line. This week he makes it as far as West 22nd Street!
Don Burmeister
Black White Coney Island
“Stein’s book is like a Coney Island roller coaster; it has its ups and downs but is mostly a smooth ride.”
Norman Borden
Mid-Town Photo Walkabout
“By far the most interesting photographic experience of the afternoon was on the Times Square shuttle train.”
Barbara Confino
R. Wayne Parsons Interview
“The point is that much of what you see at Auschwitz looks very similar to what you see any other place. But these things have their significance solely by virtue of their story...”
NYPR
Soho Photo 2011 to 1971
“Forty years ago, a couple of young New York Times photographers along with a few other photojournalists got tired of looking for a gallery to show their personal work and decided to start their own. “
Norman Borden
AIPAD Discoveries 2011
“All you need for AIPAD is time and if you’re in a buying mode, as a fair number of visitors there seem to have been, a checkbook.”
Norman Borden
Soth-Fink-Neshat-Saul at AIPAD 2011
“When all was said and done, those questions went mostly unanswered, but the audience had a good idea of where these artists came from...”
Norman Borden
Barbara Confino: Photo-Synthesis
Like the surrealists, Hopper was a visionary. Yet unlike them he did not turn away from what is in favor of what is imagined. The modern master of interior light and the interplay between interior and exterior spaces, Hopper revels in light both for its own sake and for its metaphorical implications. The relationship of light to that which is illuminated, be it a building, a woman, a gas pump is always central. At the heart of tangible reality lies something intangible: the human psyche, which permeates things, spaces, and light, as well as people.
Barbara Confino
AIPAD Redux
“The biggest event of the photography collecting year is returning to the Armory this weekend...with 81 galleries from as far away as Beijing, Buenos Aires, Osaka, Jerusalem and Brooklyn.”
Reviewer #1
FAMILY ALBUM
“But one thing most appropriate for, but absent, in this particular Arcadia are the words ‘Et in Arcadia ego.’...”
R. Wayne Parsons
FOTO-FICTION #1
“In the Society of X no one remained immune to the allure of the Games. ...”
Barbara Confino
Jay Maisel on NY Photo Galleries
“I go to a lot of galleries and it’s sort of like baseball because if I can hit .300, I’m incredibly happy, but seven out of ten shows are shit.”
Norman Borden
Family Album
“I don’t know who snapped the picture --- certainly no one with any real knowledge of photography, as there weren’t any in my family...”
R. Wayne Parsons
Photo-Essay #2
“In this theater of pubescent desire, the girl in the middle is center stage....”
Barbara Confino
Photo-Essay #1
There they are, so many lives, on the steps of a church in Guatemala. The soldier who is a full-blooded Mayan wears the uniform of those who will perpetuate the coming genocide. ...
Barbara Confino
The Artist is Present
“This past fall, I published an article titled Mamihlapinatapai : A Librarian’s Perspective on a Word not yet Found in an English or Spanish. ...”
Vicente Revilla