Mimi Plumb’s photos of 1980s and ’90s San Francisco look at the dissonance between an expanding metropolis and its surrounding environment.
Zach Ritter
Zach Ritter is a writer living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Hyperallergic and the Brooklyn Rail.
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Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth’s art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.
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A Photographer Captures the Collective Fatigue of the Welfare State
A persistent feature of Paul Graham’s photographs in Beyond Caring is the way they describe the act of waiting as a common, and alienating, condition of Britain’s welfare system.
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Capital and Complicity in the Art World
William Powhida reorients our perspective away from the individuals who lead and fundraise for cultural institutions and redirects it toward international flows of capital.
