Using cardboard panels to divide a male nude. Jimmy DeSana at Salon 94 Bowery.

Playfully tweaking our sense of scale. Duane Michals, from a 1973 sequence, at DC Moore.

Solidity/illusion amid spatial interruptions. Bill Durgin in the PHOTO-FINISH group show at Station Independent Projects.

Curlers and insistent lines. Larry Sultan in the Photography sale (closing 5/31) at Paddle8.

Peeling away nudes in cut canvas strings. Kamolpan Chotvichai at Sundaram Tagore.

In situ commentary via lightbox interventions. Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman.

Intensely emotional self modification. Carlos Motta at PPOW.

Turning window blind shadows into elegant hard edged abstraction. Kathy Ryan at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

A mute frog’s supply of dangling children. Eva Koťátková at Maccarone.

Obscuring with emphatically gestural overpainting. Arnulf Rainer in the 5/24 sale at InnAuction.

Dancers in a gently tangled pile. Nir Arieli at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

The intricate carvings of a Cairo minaret. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey at MacDougall’s.

Intimacy and chartreuse chewing gum. Olivia Bee at Aperture.

Turning a shoji screen into an image grid. Kansuke Yamamoto at Taka Ishii Gallery.

Sound waves as lenticular ripples on water. Martin Klimas at Foley Galley.

Removed devices and being alone together. Eric Pickersgill at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Building textures: brick, slatted wood, burnished steel, evergreen. Frank Gohlke in the 5/13 Fine Prints & Photographs sale at Skinner.

The Baroque chiaroscuro of a lounging male stripper. Jan Rattia at ClampArt.

Everyday receipts – scanned, colorized, mailed. Moyra Davey at Murray Guy.

Contemplating an open mouthed scream. Eikoh Hosoe at Envoy Enterprises.