Isolating the gaze and pose of a rap concert video. Deana Lawson in the Black Venus group show at Fotografiska.
Collaging together regal power and provocative submission. Kara Walker in the Black Venus group show at Fotografiska.
Playing the beauty pageant role of Miss Black Lesbian. Zanele Muholi in the Black Venus group show at Fotografiska.
Repurposing a destroyed tank in the ruins of Kabul for play. James Nachtwey at Fotografiska.
Kaleidoscopic movement and dissolving color. Elizaveta Porodina in the second floor hallway at Fotografiska.
The murky surveillance of tapped undersea cables. Trevor Paglen in the A Thousand Secrets group show at Apexart.
The sculpted hair of James B. Whiteside. Camila Falquez at Hannah Traore Gallery.
The uncertain sequencing of peeling a hard-boiled egg. Naima Green at Baxter St at CCNY.
Angles, shadows, and a vellum interruption. Sandi Haber Fifield at Yancey Richardson Gallery.
The misty glow of concentric cyanotype circles. François Bucher at Cristin Tierney.
Giving a view of dense greenery a more unruly mood with layered exposures and dripping developer. Bryan Graf at Yancey Richardson Gallery.
A rear projection park scene interrupted by a wary glance. Cindy Sherman (from 1980) at Hauser & Wirth.
The dark stare of model Devyn Garcia, underneath an exaggerated puff of hair. Ethan James Green (from 2022) at Fotografiska.
Upending the cigarette-smoking masculine cowboy mystique. Dana Hoey at Petzel Gallery.
Getting lost in the twists of body paint. Whitney Hubbs in the Rainbow Body Problem group show at No Gallery.
Turning a Thames estuary horizon into an elemental vertical abstraction. Nadav Kander (from 2021) at Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Building a self-portrait out of Polaroid fragments. Lisette Model (from 1970) in The Camera is Cruel at the Austrian Cultural Forum.
A study of angles and expressions. Nan Goldin (from 1977) in The Camera is Cruel at the Austrian Cultural Forum.
An intimate contact print of a well known image. Diane Arbus (from 1963) in The Camera is Cruel at the Austrian Cultural Forum.
A visible link connecting the generations. Anna Maria Maiolino (from 1976) in Alfredo Jaar, The Temptation to Exist at Galerie Lelong.
