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1. Two Radically Disjunct Approaches
This is the first of five blogs I will be writing for the Fotomuseum Winterthur and, as it happens, the first I have ever written. But because almost everything I write is done on commission, the...
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2. Boundary Problems: Addressing History in the Image
In the powerful group exhibition entitled Re-framing History at the Galerie Lelong in NYC, only one of the 21 works on view falls under the rubric of “photography.” But even so, in addition to its...
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3. A Tale of Two Mapplethorpes
A large retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work has just opened at the Grand Palais in Paris. It is coupled with another Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Musée Rodin where Mapplethorpe’s...
View ArticleI. Photographers versus Artists: A Colonial Story?
In this blog, I will explore—in a necessarily fragmented way—some of the paradoxes inherent to the complex relations between photography and so-called contemporary art, as seen through the eyes of a...
View ArticleIII. Photography versus Contemporary Art: The Case of the Lecture Performance
There is less and less photography (and photographers) in contemporary art exhibitions, but more and more photographs. The photograph is a lens through which we see the contemporary world, which comes...
View ArticleIV. Photographers versus Contemporary Artists: Whose Crisis Is Deeper?
Photography and contemporary art are engaged in an entangled relationship with unresolved issues of power. Essentially, photography is one of art’s media, while art is one of photography’s...
View ArticleV. Photography versus Contemporary Art: What’s Next?
We have reviewed several aspects of the highly competitive—even love/hate—relationship between contemporary art and photography. Is there anything left to say? Perhaps something about the future of...
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2. What I Talk about When I Talk about Photography
If one thinks about photography in medium-specific terms, digitization actually hasn’t introduced any significant challenges to the essence of the photographic moment. Cameras and iPhones that produce...
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