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Election 2024: Image World (10)

Nowadays it takes the extraordinary to viralize an image. And, though it’s not necessarily to his benefit, Trump has the magic touch in that regard. The past several weeks have yielded multiple Trump-related imagistic gems, including, but not limited to, … […]

Reinventing Photography (1974)

Many contemporary artists appear to believe that photography is a virgin territory without a history, free from relevant precedents and prior accomplishments: a brand new field of ideas which have not even been touched on by the medium’s own practitioners, in which any small step breaks new ground. […]

Art Critics: Our Weakest Link (1974)

The lack of knowledgeability of the art critics in regard to photography does not stop with them; it is transmitted to both the audience and the artists. Such a situation is not merely regrettable, but damaging to all concerned. […]

Election 2024: Image World (9)

So here we are, four weeks away from learning what we collectively decided as to whether we should turn into a Christofascist dictatorship. […]

Julio Mitchel: Two Wards (1974)

The contrast between the world outside the hospital, where the physically well cannot find relief from emotional pain, and the world inside the second of Julio Mitchel’s “Two Wards,” is the photographer’s major point. It emerges from neither of these two essays separately; it is created by their combination. […]