Drying laundry under an impossibly ornate chandelier. Michael Eastman at Edwynn Houk.

A burst of flash as a physical force. Michael Snow at Jack Shainman.

A plastic bag full of brash, youthful energy. Lin Zhipeng in The Chinese Photobook at Aperture.

Odermatt-like earnestness from the Traffic Police. In The Chinese Photobook at Aperture.

Bringing photographic flatness to hand molded sculpture. Rachel de Joode at KANSAS.

Anguish transformed into blinding light. Alfredo Jaar at Galerie Lelong.

Rethinking the carnival cutout as sculptural photography. Jakob Kolding at Team.

The timeless cool of Joan Didion and her yellow Corvette Stingray. Julian Wasser at Danziger.

The soft melancholy of the back rooms of Versailles. Deborah Turbeville at Staley-Wise.

A lenticular collage of architectural geometries. Barry Gerson at Thomas Erben.

Fire marking the receding glacier edge. Simon Norfolk at Benrubi.

A mirror-combined familial embrace. Julianne Swartz at Mixed Greens.

Harmonies in orange and brown. Willis Hartschorn at Howard Greenberg.

A towering wave over a hand-crafted set. Jasper de Beijer at Asya Geisberg.

The radiating lines of rotting planks. Esko Männikkö at Yancey Richardson.

Seductively collapsed layers of bodies and food. Irina Arnaut in the Immediate Female group show at Judith Charles.

The jumbled folds of collaged sheets. Paul Loughney in the Domestic Ideals group show at Lesley Heller.

Elegant bullet shredded balloons. Harold Edgerton at Sikkema Jenkins.

The shadowy geometries of urban construction. Vera Lutter at Gagosian.

Overpainted slide enlargements from 1950s Japan. John David O’Brien at Causey Contemporary.