RECOMMENDED Joel Sternfeld occupies a distinguished place in American photography as the straight shooter who took street photography—with all its ironies, wit and emotive impact—into the fields and small towns of our country, adding arresting and luxuriant beauty to a genre noted for urban grit. Above all a lover of all he surveys, Sternfeld can transform an auto dump nestled in the autumn woods into a idyllic vision that would send a chill into the heart of an environmentalist—the scene needs the junk to reach its aesthetic perfection. Sternfeld loads the visual dice by printing in large-format color that is perfectly balanced, just muted enough to invite us inside his subjects, yet perfectly delineated with gradations of tone that rival the subtlety associated with black and white. Such devotion to the world stripped of everything but its own plenitude is no longer sought or found in today’s photography. (Michael Weinstein) Through November 10 at Russell Bowman Art Advisory
The American Experiment: A Review of Is It A Good Time? at Mana Contemporary There is variety in the work indeed, and yet in so many of the pieces there are suggestions of duality. It makes sense—all the artists whose work is featured are currently living in America and experiencing it through the lens of a different culture.
For Us: A Review of "Something from Something" at Engage Projects Kushala Vora and Adia Sykes’ collaboration "Something from Something" tells us as viewers that knowledge, art, creation, inspiration, love—really anything you can think of—has a place of origin.
Women Behind the Lens: A Review of "From Her to Eternity" Courtney Love curates on the street. Just west of Wabash on the corner of Eighth Street, there is a wall of stellar rock star images that includes a special collection made by women photographers over the years.
