Time & photography: stopping, compressing, slowing – amazing

Posted in: Contemporary Photography- Jan 12, 2012 Comments Off

Photographer and techno-wizard Adam Magyar has been working on a tricky time-based photographic series entitled Stainless since 2009. For this series, Magyar takes tack-sharp photographs of moving subway trains that look like they are stopped still. Owing to the…

Re Runs: Gilda Davidian

Posted in: Contemporary Photography, L E N S C R A T C H- Dec 30, 2011 Comments Off

This was first posted in 2009…I’ve been meaning to write about Los Angeles photographer, Gilda Davidian for sometime. Gilda knows how to take a Portrait (with a capital “P”) and her website and flickr pages are full of wonderful imagery of her frie…

Limits of Photography Pushes the Boundary Between Fantasy and Reality

Posted in: Contemporary Photography- Dec 21, 2011 Comments Off

John Brill, Untitled, 1991 How much can a viewer trust a photograph? Our newest exhibition, Limits of Photography, which opens on January 21, examines the point at which a photograph begins to blur the line between what is real and…

Pierre Gonnord’s Relatos

Posted in: Contemporary Photography- Nov 28, 2011 Comments Off

A new exhibition in New York features the photographer’s extraordinary portraits of marginalized individuals.