The latest column includes a personal history of connoisseurs, a repudiation of an art-historical giant, and an interview with the South Africa–based photographer.
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday
An ambitious, devastating, revelatory survey at the ICP is the first of several upcoming museum shows to explore how South African photography evolved from a document into a blunt instrument
After moving from his native New York to South Africa in the late 1970s, Roger Ballen (by his own account) produced exclusively documentary photography, chronicling life in and around Johannesburg. Th…