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"
Edward J. Steichen - The Pond - Moonrise - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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.