Abigail Simon

[caption id="attachment_750" align="alignleft" width="225"] The beautiful Angelina Jolie as interpreted by anonymous subway dadaist[/caption]                   The museums of this City have a lot to live up to: they are the Brangelinas and Britneys of the art universe, and, when the minutiae of one’s daily existence is subject

Abigail Simon

The term “portrait” as generally understood, comes with a contingent assumption of specificity: it is assumed to be "of" someone, a specific person at a certain moment in time. We are by now familiar, in the rarefied air of our fine-art-ness, with the usual interrogations of this assumption: can we ever really know anything about

Abigail Simon

Introductions are always awkward, tentative ( why is it always so difficult to begin?). Sometimes the best way to break the ice is to dive right in.... To paraphrase that most monumental pre-internet mac daddy of photo-bloggers, Roland Barthes:  the writer/critic as “ a public experimenter”, whose job is not to discover the “secret meaning”

Corey Presha

Help Me

HELP ME Found photos from the collection of Gillian McCain Curated by Gillian McCain & Megan Cump November 4 – December 18, 2010 Opening reception: Thursday, November 4, 6 – 8pm Forgotten, discarded, orphaned, lost; stolen, bought, discovered or found; the vernacular images in HELP ME are culled from Gillian McCain’s extensive collection of photographs

Corey Presha

Amy Stein 20×200 Prints!

© Amy Stein - Jen Bekman's 20x200 released two editions today from photographer Amy Stein's series Halloween in Harlem. For each edition Amy made all 100 c-prints by hand, be sure to act quickly because they are sure to be sold out very soon. In October of 2003, my husband and I moved to New

Corey Presha

Manual Transmission Miami

- Got an email from photographer Ben Alper yesterday asking to spread the word about Humble Arts Foundation's Manual Transmission project which is hoping to have its second viewing at NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach in December. To help offset productions costs curators Joy Drury Cox and Nathaniel Ward have started a kickstarter fundraising

Corey Presha

CCNY Lecture Series: Martine Fougeron

© Martin Fougeron Thursday, October 21, 7pm The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater 209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd/ 3rd Ave), Third Floor Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff General admission $5, $3 for other students with valid student ID Martine Fougeron began her Tête-á-Tête project in 2005 as a student at

Corey Presha

CCNY Benefit Auction: My Picks

- While I was going through the list of work donated to the Camera Club Auction, which is happening next week on the 25th, I decided to make a list of stuff I'd want for my collection IF I had the money. So heres my wish list: Allen Frame Jay In The Morning, New York,

Corey Presha

Ted Partin

© Ted Partin - Brooklyn based photographer Ted Partin's black and white work is really stunning. The simple images of friends explore the identity of each individual. Jeffrey Ladd recently reviewed Partin's new book Eyes Look Through You, to which he also contributed an essay to, over on his 5B4 Blog. See more work here.