Denise Bethel and an early text-only auction catalog. At the Frick photography collecting symposium.

The V & A began collecting photographs in 1852. At the Frick photography collecting symposium.

The burnished glow of ice tongs. Nina Leen at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

Exchanging faces with Virginia Woolf. Judith Henry at BravinLee Programs.

Uncanny 3D spatial fidelity in a photograph. Manuel Franquelo at Marlborough Gallery.

Layers of textures in a Guatemalan street. Mario Algaze at Throckmorton Fine Art.

Hiding in among the mannequins. Martín Gutierrez at Ryan Lee.

Daisuke Yokota applies acetic acid to his images. At the Shashin Festival.

Polaroid prints from Takashi Homma’s camera obscura. At the Shashin Festival.

Mayumi Hosokura with her new self-published photobook. At the Shashin Festival.

Geometric layers in large scale cyanotype. Erin Shirreff at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

A darkly screeching crashed car abstraction. Ari Marcopoulos at Marlborough Chelsea.

Tree branches as musical notation. Athanasios Argianas at On Stellar Rays.

Yoshihiko Ueda’s A Life with Camera from Hatori at the Shashin Festival.

Ryuichi Kaneka talks about Takuma Nakahira’s For a Language to Come, 1970, at the Shashin Festival.

Special edition of Kikuji Kawada’s The Last Cosmology from Mack/Goliga at the Shashin Festival.

Recreated motifs of stylized masculinity. Luke Smalley at ClampArt.

The eloquent mix of indoor and outdoor in Kyoto’s temples. Jacqueline Hassink at Benrubi Gallery.

Light underneath the canopy of a hollow tree. Gustave Le Gray in the second floor hallway at the Met.

A swirling intermingled mix of painting and photography. Pieter Schoolwerth at Miguel Abreu.