The Photosphere
Jean DykstraJean Dykstra's writing on photography and photo-based art.
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The Personal Is Political
Vincent Cianni, Vicky, Mark, and David marching, NYC Pride March, 1993
AIDS has been described as “the forgotten epidemic,” though never by those who experienced it, or lost family, friends, and lovers to the disease. Even during the heigh...
Night Watch
© Pia Paulina Guilmoth, rhubarb mother, c. 2021-2024. Courtesy CLAMP
I’m a little late to the party of people who’ve fallen for the haunting photographs of Pia Paulina Guilmoth, but I’m glad to have arrived. Her book Flowers Drink the Rive...
A Love Letter to Lebanon
Rania Matar, Rhea (and the Mirror), Beirut, Lebanon, 2021
In one of the first photographs in Rania Matar’s new book Where Do I Go? (KAPH Books and the Eskenazi Museum of Art), a young woman gazes into a mirror in a room that has seen bette...
Band of Brothers
Dean Majd, Hyper Dark, 2019. Courtesy the artist and BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York
The term “toxic masculinity” was apparently coined in the 1980s, by the psychologist Shepherd Bliss (his real name), but it’s been trending, as t...
Who Runs the World, Part II
Qiana Mestrich, Interoffice Envelope, 2024. Courtesy the artist
For her ongoing series The Reinforcements, Qiana Mestrich has imagined a photographic archive into existence. Her mixed-media collages shrewdly document an overlooked (and ess...
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A photography critic and arts writer (and longtime editor of the late, great photograph magazine) bringing you biweekly essays about photo-based art.
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