Category Archives: photography

“We have not loved life.” Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA, Huffington Post

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

The first several hours I spent in SFMOMA’s Garry Winogrand retrospective, I thought writing about it would be easy: it seemed like each of the 300 images offered such imaginative fodder that the only problem would be to avoid long-windedness. … Continue reading →

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South Africa in Apartheid and After at SFMOMA, Art Practical

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

“More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.”—J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace. South Africa in Apartheid and After, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is a photographic investigation of the troubled … Continue reading →

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“Desert Jewels” and “Anima and Tuareg” at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

The Museum of the African Diaspora is hosting two small but excellent shows this month. “Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection” features tribal jewelry and nineteenth-century photographs from an era when  advancements in photographic … Continue reading →

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My “Best of 2012″ arts round-up, Art Practical

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

As futile as it is to try to sum up the best arts events a cosmopolitan city like San Francisco offered in a year, especially with a mere 1200 word-count, I gave it a try for Art Practical. I settled … Continue reading →

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I had problems with “Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection.” Art Practical

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection is flush with recognizable images, and for those who have only seen reproductions of them in books or online, the show is a necessary pilgrimage. In fact the exhibit can at times feel … Continue reading →

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“Love, Anxiety, Happiness, and Everything Else” at RayKo Gallery

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

No, there is not a new photography exhibit based on the results of my Ok Cupid personality test. “Love, Anxiety, Happiness, and Everything Else” is the appropriately-broad title of a show comprising the work of 50 contemporary photographers, the finalists … Continue reading →

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I’m going to the opening of “This is Your World” at Gallery Carte Blanche Friday. Are you?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

I’ve written about Gallery Carte Blanche before, and am excited for the new show opening at the Mission gallery/bookshop/hangout. “This is Your World” features the photography of four European women, and the subject of this exhibit is women: in childhood, … Continue reading →

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I interviewed photographer Fred Lyon for The Rumpus

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

What does it take to commit to a craft for more than 70 years—particularly one that has undergone the revolutions in technology that photography has? Legendary photographer Fred Lyon worked as a Navy photographer in WWII, spent more than a decade … Continue reading →

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Speak, Memory: Restaging the Past in Todd Hido’s Silver Meadows

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

The press release for Todd Hido’s recent exhibit Excerpts from Silver Meadows describes it as a “metaphorical reckoning with his own past,” and indeed many of images look as they might in memory or old polaroids: blurry, the colors faded or over-saturated … Continue reading →

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Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA, Huffington Post

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman … Continue reading →

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