For those who like a list, here are the reviews, articles, and essays that received the most traffic on Collector Daily in 2018, in ranked order by subject.
To be clear, these are not our editorial choices for some measure of “best” or “most important”, but simply the sums of the raw viewership data drawn from our analytics software. Perhaps we can best think of these lists, and some of the surprises that they contain, as signposts to what our particular community found worth deeper consideration in this past year.
Museums and Galleries (drawn from a total of 150 reviews)
- The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki @Museum of Sex (here)
- Stephen Shore @MoMA (here)
- William Eggleston: Los Alamos @Met (here)
- Markus Brunetti, FACADES – Grand Tour @Yossi Milo (here)
- Susan Lipper, trip, 1993-1999 @Higher Pictures (here)
- Peter Hujar: Speed of Life @Morgan Library (here)
- Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs @MCNY (here)
- Wolfgang Tillmans, How likely is it that only I am right in this matter? @David Zwirner (here)
- Thomas Demand @Matthew Marks (here)
- Zoe Leonard: Survey @Whitney (here)
Photobooks (drawn from a total of 81 reviews)
- Daniel Shea, 43-35 10th Street (here)
- Mike Slack, The Transverse Path (here)
- Tanyth Berkeley, The Walking Woman (here)
- Pixy Liao, Experimental Relationship Vol. 1 (2007-2017) (here)
- Carmen Winant, My Birth (here)
- Maya Rochat, A Rock is a River (here)
- Daisuke Yokota, Cloud (here)
- Marinos Tsagkarakis, Paradise Inn (here)
- Nick Sethi, Khichdi (Kitchari) (here)
- Benoît Fougeirol, (Zus) (here)
Art Fairs, Auctions, and Opinions (drawn from a total of 67 auction results, fair reports, and essays)
- Highlights from the 2018 AIPAD Photography Show Part 1 of 2 (here)
- 2018 Guggenheim Fellows in Photography (here)
- Photography Highlights from the 2018 Frieze New York Art Fair (here)
- Highlights from the 2018 AIPAD Photography Show Part 2 of 2 (here)
- Top 10 Highest Priced Photography Lots at Auction in 2017 (here)
- Photography Highlights from the 2018 Armory Show (here)
- 100 Highlights from Paris Photo 2018, Part 1 of 5 (here)
- The Problem(s) with Fashion Photography (here)
- 100 Highlights from Paris Photo 2018, Part 2 of 5 (here)
- 100 Highlights from Paris Photo 2018, Part 3 of 5 (here)