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Feminist Futures

Delighted to contribute to Aperture’s Utopia issue with an essay on feminism, collage and the possibility of change. I also moderated a related talk with Alanna Fields, Felicity Hammond and Lissa Rivera, part of Aperture Conversations. 

#feministfutures #Aperture Magazine #alannafields #felicityhammond #lissarivera #lorna simpson #mickalene thomas #sara cwynar #hannah hoch #farahalqasimi #essay #collage

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A World History of Women Photographers

I have contributed texts on E Jane Gay, Marianne Wex and Bunny Yeager to this survey of women photographers - originally published in French (Editions Textuel) and shortly available in English (Thames & Hudson).

#worldhistoryofwomenphotographers #ejanegay #mariannewex #bunnyyeager #womenphotographers

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She Unfolds: exhibition online

She Unfolds, an exhibition about women as readers and writers, is now online. It includes a selection from my collection of photographs of women reading alongside new work by Alessandra Aballe. 

#she unfolds #lady readers #alessandra abballe #Ryerson Artspace #found photography #women reading

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Recent Advancements: Jimmy Limit

Delighted to have my essay “The Surface of the Museum” included in this new monograph on the work of artist Jimmy Limit. 

#essay #jimmy limit #rodman hall #recent advancements

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Dress for What Job?

As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.

#aperture blog #mast foundation uniforms #rineke dijkstra

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Curator’s Reading List

A few readings in relation to my thinking about Thirza Schaap’s project Plastic Ocean, which will be presented as a public installation in Dupont Subway station as part of the 2021 Contact Photography Festival. 

#thirza schaap #scotiabankcontactphotographyfestival #wanda nanibush #roxana marcoci #jean baudrillard

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She Unfolds

Delighted to be showing a few photographs from my collection of women reading in She Unfolds, an exhibition at Ryerson Artspace about women as readers and writers, alongside new work by Alessandra Abballe. The show will be on view again when it is safe for the gallery to reopen. 

#she unfolds #lady readers #found photography #alessandra abballe #ryerson artspace

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The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home

Revisiting the 1991 MoMA Exhibition The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, for Aperture Magazine’s “House & Home” issue. 

#pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort #moma #Aperture Magazine #essay

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Sondra Meszaros: Redrawing Power and Pleasure

An essay on the aesthetics and power dynamics of gender and sexuality in the work of Sondra Meszaros, for 1,000 Words.

#sondra meszaros #1000 words #essay

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Exhibition as Object and Image

An essay on the exhibition as object, for the publication accompanying Momenta Biennale de l’Image 2019: The Life of Things

#momenta #the life of things #essay

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Rye New Gen: Images for the Future

An essay for the publication accompanying the exhibition Rye New Gen, with work by Zinnia Naqvi, Curtiss Randolph, Sam Cotter, Wynne Neilly and Ethan Murphy, Ryerson Artspace, September 27-October 26, 2019

#ryenewgen #ryerson artspace #zinnia naqvi #curtiss randolph #sam cotter #wynne neilly #ethan murphy #ryerson school of image arts

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Inventions 1915-1938 From the Gas Mask to the Washing Machine

A review of Luce Lebart’s Inventions 1915-1938 (RVB Books) for The PhotoBook Review #017

#luce lebart #inventions 19151938 #rvb books #the photobook review

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Carmen Winant and Orlando

On Carmen Winant’s new work, commissioned for the “Orlando” issue of Aperture Magazine, guest edited by Tilda Swinton

#carmen winant #orlando #virginia woolf #Aperture Magazine #essay

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The Photographer Giving New Life to Ocean Plastic

On Thirza Schaap’s Plastic Ocean for Aperture Magazine’s “Earth” issue

#thirza schaap #Aperture Magazine #plastic ocean #essay

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The Lives of Girls and Women: In Conversation with Jo Ann Walters

A conversation with artist Jo Ann Walters on her recent publication, Wood River Blue Pool, for The Heavy Collective Volume III

#jo ann walters #heavy collective #lives of girls and women #essay

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Reordering the World: Some Thoughts on André Malraux’s Museum without Walls

An essay on Malraux as editor, of himself and of the world, for The PhotoBook Review #015

#Andre Malraux #museum without walls #the photobook review #essay

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Everything is Light

On LA light and architecture in the work of Mona Kuhn, for the “Los Angeles” issue of Aperture Magazine 

#mona kuhn #Aperture Magazine #los angeles #essay