Down the Rabbit Hole - Week 10

Updated through the week: So far, Diana Matar

Diana Matar

I just discovered Diana Matar because New Directions recently published I Found Myself, by Naguib Mahfouz with her photos accompanying the text.

Photographer and Barnard Distinguished Artist in Comparative Literature Diana Matar traversed the United States for ten years, documenting locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers. In the resulting book of black and white photographs, writings, and detailed research, My America, she asks: “What does it mean to live in a land where the people responsible for protecting its citizens can so often be involved in their deaths?”

Rebecca Bengal

One of my recent favorite books was an essay collection by Rebecca Bengal called Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, published by Aperture.

Edward Steichen’s The Pond - Moonlight

The image that transcended and helped photography go from "is it art" to "it is absolutely the best type of art"

Emily Bierman, Sotheby's Global Head of Prints & Photographs, examines Edward Steichen’s The Pond - Moonlight, a seminal turn of the century photograph whose technical innovation transformed the status of the medium.

Jeff Wall

Wall's original "A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)" was made in 1993. This new edition from a few years ago takes the image in a different direction.

William Eggleston

I missed the exhibition at David Zwirner Galleries of “William Eggleston: The Last Dyes,” but it seemed to me something you had to see IRL. Alas, we can read about it in Aperture, or see the images displayed online.