Swirling expressive overpainting on Polaroid edges. Peter Beard in the 5/18 Photographs Signature Auction at Heritage.

Silhouetted priests in playful rhythms. Mario Giacomelli in the 5/18 Fine Photographs and Photobooks sale at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury.

Letting algorithms scrape feeds and add gestures. Siebren Versteeg at Bitforms.

Hybrid collaged humans overtaking the insect world. Dominique Paul at Miyako Yoshinaga.

Exploring the conceptual aesthetics of photo emulsion on canvas. Early John Baldessari at Craig F. Starr Gallery.

Turning crane buckets into industrial abstractions. Ludwig Windstosser in The Mechanics of Expression at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Girder graffiti and a reversed Brooklyn Bridge. Vera Lutter in The Mechanics of Expression at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Scratchy interlocked multiples of sail rigging. Otto Steinert in The Mechanics of Expression at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Exploring the minute subtleties of tonal shifts. Leslie Hewitt at Sikkema Jenkins.

Confusing waterscapes, where tiny reeds fill the reflected sky. Ori Gersht at CRG Gallery.

Straightening a bolt of lightning. Julius von Bismarck at Marlborough Contemporary.

Erasing pornography in search of essentials. Stephen Irwin at Invisible-Exports.

Tenderness and intimacy in LGBTQ Delhi. Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh at sepiaEYE.

The sculpted vertical forms of male legs. Bryson Rand at La MaMa La Galleria.

The elegant architectural folds of vinyl cyanotypes. Ryan Oskin at Rubber Factory.

Poetic swirls of watery photogram circles. Kansuke Yamamoto at Taka Ishii Gallery.

Clustered arrangements of prints on armatures. Fia Backström at Mary Boone Gallery.

A double frame mix of high contrast angles. Ray Metzker in the 4/26 Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs sale at Doyle.

Turning falling water into a vertical zip. Toshio Shibata at Laurence Miller Gallery.

The uneasy flatness of circular hay bales. Helen Sear at Klompching Gallery.