Art and Politics

Walter Benjamin‘s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is frequently evoked in the world of photography. One of its key concepts is the idea of “aura”. In a nutshell, Benjamin argues that the psychological presence of an object disappears once it’s…

General / January 17 2022

Yaga

Photobook Review
January 10 2022

Eikoh Hosoe

General
January 03 2022

Against Illusionism

Criticism
December 27 2021

A Conversation With Lina Scheynius

Conversations
December 20 2021

Against Neoliberal Dogma: Art And Creativity

Teaching
December 13 2021

Deana Lawson

General
December 06 2021

A Conversation With 10×10 Photobooks

Conversations
November 29 2021

The Background Story of Kikuji Kawada’s The Map

In Detail
November 22 2021

A Conversation With Jenny Kim

Conversations
November 15 2021

Closed For Renovation

General
October 23 2021

Things Aren’t Always As Mother Reports

Photobook Review
October 18 2021

More on Consent

General
October 11 2021

Zur Linde

General
October 04 2021

i saw the air fly

General
September 27 2021

Springs and Wells

General
September 20 2021

Course of the Empire?

General
September 13 2021

Billable Hours in 6-minute increments

Photobook Review
September 06 2021

Butterflies

Photobook Review
August 30 2021

The Enemy Is Us

General
August 21 2021

Speak The Wind

Photobook Review
August 16 2021

Soft Copy Hard Copy

General
August 09 2021

Liberia

General
August 02 2021

Into the Technological Sublime

General
July 26 2021

Odd Time

Photobook Review
July 19 2021

Zenker

Photobook Review
July 12 2021

Issei Suda and Japanese Photography in the West

General
July 05 2021

Thingstätten

General
June 28 2021

Cai Dongdong’s History of Life

General
June 21 2021

Angelus Novus

General
June 14 2021

Photography and State Violence

General
June 07 2021

Deutschland Deutschland

Photobook Review
May 31 2021

The Shabbiness of Beauty

General
May 24 2021

Kosuke Okahara’s Dreams

General
May 17 2021

Encampment, Wyoming

General
May 10 2021

Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits

General
May 03 2021

A World That May Not Have Anything to Offer

General
April 26 2021

Alles nur künftige Ruinen

General
April 19 2021

I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows

Photobook Review
April 12 2021

Bad Ass and Beauty

General
April 05 2021

Home Fires

Photobook Review
March 29 2021

The Photograph Isn’t the Landscape

General
March 22 2021

The Twenty Years War

Photobook Review
March 15 2021

Still, Life

General
March 08 2021

Tomorrow’s Snow

Photobook Review
March 01 2021

Photobook Reviews (W8/2021)

Photobook Review
February 22 2021

Woman Go No’Gree

Photobook Review
February 15 2021

The Green Helicopter

General
February 07 2021

A Conversation with Karolina Gembara (cont’ed)

Conversations
January 31 2021

A Conversation with Karolina Gembara

Conversations
January 24 2021

Photography’s Table Top Joes

General
January 18 2021

An Educational Archive

General
January 11 2021

To pick up a book about stones

Photobook Review
January 04 2021

Alice Rose George 1944-2020

General
December 28 2020

Photography’s Neoliberal Realism

General
December 21 2020

The Biggest of All Small Miracles

Photobook Review
December 14 2020

An Attic Full of Trains Flattened in Time and Space (in which the reviewer short circuits)

General
December 07 2020

Small Town Portraits

General
November 30 2020

New books by Sibylle Fendt and Michał Adamski

Photobook Review
November 23 2020

The Locusts

Photobook Review
November 16 2020

Vaterland

General
November 09 2020