Books
A Photographer’s Travels Across the Real American West
In a new book, the photographer Peter Kayafas captures the contemporary soul of a region long obscured by its own enduring myths.
Peter Kayafas
Art
The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas from America’s Open Road
When you stand on the shoulders of giants, what do you see — especially if you’re looking through an old Leica M6 rangefinder with a single, well-traveled, 35-millimeter lens, which, over a quarter of a century, has seen a lot?
Books
Jed Perl’s Magicians & Charlatans: In An Ailing Art World, the Best Discoveries Can Stir the Soul
As the American critic Jed Perl points out in his new book, Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture (Eakins Press Foundation, 2013), a collection of essays about subjects in the fields of Renaissance, modern and contemporary art, today the forces of “art as money” have vanquished those of