Andy Mattern’s, “Average Subject/Medium Distance”, featured in the summer issue of Photonews
A photographic series, Average Subject/Medium Distance, captures Kodaguides, a common photography tool used in the 1940s and 1950s to adjust exposure, depth of field, and lighting prior to the widespread dissemination of…
Daniel W. Coburn’s, “Becoming a Specter”, featured on Lenscratch
Daniel W. Coburn’s, “Becoming a Specter”, was featured on Lenscratch, a daily journal created by curator Aline Smithson in 2007, that explores contemporary photography and presents work in a way that allows for a deeper understanding of a photographer’s intent and vision. Some photographs faithfully record the world in front of them. Others…
I ❤️ AARON SISKIND
I ❤ Aaron Siskind, on view now at Elizabeth Houston Gallery through August 17, captures the textures, forms, lines and shapes the artist uncovered in the cast-off objects, barren walls, graffiti and signage of cities near and far. Woodgrain, scrawled text, torn paper, splattered paint, refuse and debris are transformed into the light and shadow of gelatin silver. Siskind saw…
Katinka Lampe: Let’s Change History
Daniel Coburn’s Becoming a Specter, on view at Elizabeth Houston Gallery from June 6 to August 17, traffics in these paradoxes, teasing out the tension below the surfaces of our most intimate conceptions of ourselves and others. Although Coburn’s photographs are domestic, they are never banal. The artist does not buy into the tepid reality of mortgages, traditional families, and material largesse. Instead, Becoming a Specter speaks…
Colin Chillag: It’s Important to be Nobody
Daniel Coburn’s Becoming a Specter, on view at Elizabeth Houston Gallery from June 6 to August 17, traffics in these paradoxes, teasing out the tension below the surfaces of our most intimate conceptions of ourselves and others. Although Coburn’s photographs are domestic, they are never banal. The artist does not buy into the tepid reality of mortgages, traditional families, and material largesse. Instead, Becoming a Specter speaks…
Daniel Coburn: Becoming a Specter
Daniel Coburn’s Becoming a Specter, on view at Elizabeth Houston Gallery from June 6 to August 17, traffics in these paradoxes, teasing out the tension below the surfaces of our most intimate conceptions of ourselves and others. Although Coburn’s photographs are domestic, they are never banal. The artist does not buy into the tepid reality of mortgages, traditional families, and material largesse. Instead, Becoming a Specter speaks…