Tag Archives: photography

Photobooth and my crush on tintypes, SF Weekly

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Larissa Archer

​ A lot of people have been scratching their heads at the surge in popularity of photographic styles that were once the inevitable defects of machinery long since surpassed and outmoded. While digital cameras that can take clear, detailed, almost “perfect” … Continue reading →

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Fabricated Realities at Robert Koch Gallery, in Art Practical

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Despite the sometimes disturbing effectiveness of Photoshop, we still expect photography to show us something that at least seems real. It’s understood that the freedom to contrive entire alternate worlds belongs to the painter, sculptor, writer, or dramatist—any artist whose … Continue reading →

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Fan Ho’s A Hong Kong Memoir in the SF Examiner

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Larissa Archer

Fan Ho’s “A Hong Kong Memoir,” on display thorough Sept. 3 at Modernbook Gallery, might seem at first look like the work of an Asian Eugene Atget — documental (bordering on sentimental) images of a city and a life that … Continue reading →

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My Review of the Irving Penn exhibit at Fraenkel Gallery in the San Francisco Examiner

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Larissa Archer

If today’s fashion world pushes a narrow concept of beauty — tall, thin, young, more thin — 70 years ago that concept was even narrower, as the tall, thin young girls in the magazines also had to be white. For … Continue reading →

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