A dense network of pottery shards and fiber optics. Vivan Sundaram at sepia EYE.

A lonely bird against an expansive sky. Felix Gonzalez-Torres at David Zwirner.

Finding abstraction in the negative space of a fotonovela collage. Leandro Katz at Henrique Faria Fine Art.

A staged gun battle with street art. Jamel Shabazz at United Photo Industries.

Muscular architecture and ambiguous estrangement. Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery.

Sandwiched layers of urgent questions. David Attie in the Picture the Word group show at Keith De Lellis Gallery.

Extending Erwitt with one more mirrored door jamb. Barbara Bloom at David Lewis Gallery.

Creating mirrored effects with two photogram sheets. Walead Beshty at Petzel Gallery.

A candy-colored array of ghostly aura portraits. Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery.

Wooden spindles enclosing a kitchen still life. Naoki Sutter-Shudo at Bodega.

Accordion fold photobooks, measured in feet. Maxine Henryson at A.I.R. Gallery.

Exploring additive composition via paired iterations. Richard Caldicott at Sous Les Etoiles.

Silky drapery folds, pearls, and a reflection. Cindy Sherman at Mnuchin Gallery.

The blurred echoes of shirt spots and light bulbs. Debbie Fleming Caffery at Gitterman Gallery.

The delicacy of raindrops. Ansel Adams in the 5/19 Fine Photographs sale at Skinner.

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.