Terrific Avedon from In The American West tucked in a side room off the lobby at the Peninsula Hotel.
Conceptual rephotography: Sherrie Levine’s rework of August Sander at Paula Cooper.
Crisply detailed Edouard Baldus images of the construction of the New Louvre circa 1855 at Fred Torres.
Louis Stettner’s Chrysler Building interrupted by the AMC Theatres neon sign. In a side room at Bonni Benrubi.
Tactile lemons and pomegranates in Paulette Tavormina’s painterly still life study at Robert Mann.
An unpublished book maquette by David “Chim” Seymour in the second gallery at Howard Greenberg.
Ghostly crowds of pilgrims on the beach at Rameswaram. Kenro Izu at Howard Greenberg.
Lovely 19th century floral study of poppies by Charles Aubry, in the back room at Robert Mann.
Leigh Ledare’s stained pink ceiling in the Nevermore group show at On Stellar Rays.
The gridded geometric lines of Ezra Stoller’s 1950 DuPont chemical plant. At Yossi Milo.
A layered composition of red pillows, a mirror, and hula-hooping on grandma’s bed. Katrina del Mar at Participant.
The wispy, twisting, black lines of doubled rose twigs. Dirk Stewen at Tanya Bonakdar.
Sculptural combinations of photographic scrims, probing transparency and reflection. Sabine Hornig at Tanya Bonakdar.
Fragmented, interrupted, portrait reflections in black and white by Hrvoje Slovenc at Helac Fine Art.
Back of the cab video short: Ryan McGinley’s red headed city runner.
Book jacket photography – an Adam Fuss water baby photogram.
A layered Martin Parr-ish tornado of ladies and cameras by Mónika Sziládi in the all Yale group show at Garis & Hahn.
Clustered rectangular build ups/cut outs raise/excavate the picture plane. Ishmael Randall Weeks at Eleven Rivington.
Jessica Labatte’s cut paper photo abstractions are like angular flattened origami. In the back gallery at Horton Gallery.
Picked up back issues of Toilet Paper mag at Printed Matter last week. Surreal, subversive, impolite, and brilliant.
