Look and Feel: The Best Photography Books of 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, we asked a handful of experts to pick the most memorable new photography books that they encountered this year.
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Leah Ollman
Christina Forrer
Christina Forrer’s weavings are as engrossing on the level of the individual stitch and strand as they are jolting pictorially and thematically. Idiosyncrasies of the hand ally with order imposed by t…
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Jeni Spota C.
The texture of Jeni Spota C.’s paintings verges on outrageous. Impasto barely begins to describe the gooey slabs and thick crusts, the insistent materiality. For all of their surface intensity, howeve…
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Joel Otterson
If the impulse driving Joel Otterson’s work could be reduced to an aphorism on a stitched sampler—a form that, in fact, inspires him—it might read: “Domestic does not necessarily mean…
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Alison Rossiter
Mostly from 2014 or ’15, Alison Rossiter’s 50-plus works at Yossi Milo pay homage to the rich idiosyncrasies of photographic papers across history, and restore a sanctity to the photograph as object. …
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Ben Jackel
Physical might converges with formal presence and technical prowess in Jackel’s elegant, richly complicated work.
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Lucia Koch
Brazilian artist Lucia Koch's first solo appearance in the U.S. was coyly titled "(a small show with a lot of space in it)."
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Joyce Campbell
Photography’s dual functions—to re-present what the eye sees and also to suggest what it cannot—merge in Joyce Campbell’s quietly forceful recent work. Born in New Zealand and based in Auckland and…
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Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi's first retrospective was as revelatory as it was stirring, a thoroughly compelling introduction to nearly five decades of visual poetry. Born in Aligarh, India, in 1937, Zarina, who…
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Alison Saar
Alison Saar has recently added cast and blown glass to her already broad repertory of historically charged, richly tactile materials-coal, tar, wood, rope, antlers, ceiling tin, old tools.
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