School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition ends on Sunday. If you’re in Chelsea this weekend, you should pop in and see the latest crop of graduates’ work. A few highlights, as I can tell from looking at tiny jpegs over the Web:

Yiftach Belsky, Ikonostasis:voyeuristic transparencies over illuminated shadow boxes

Jessica Bruah, No Lake This Summer: [...]

In recommending a collection of Philip Gefter essays, Photography After Frank, gallerist James Danzinger has this advice, which I’ve been unwittingly following for the past eight years:
When people ask me what they need to do to understand the world of fine art photography, I tell them: go to galleries, preview auctions, and read the photography [...]

I immediately thought it was strange that after toppling Saddam Hussein, the US Army would set up various headquarters inside Saddam’s palaces. It seemed too symbolic of “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, swapping one overlord for another. Better to demolish them, in my opinion. Richard Mosse has documented the new [...]

If you’re in NYC this week, you might want to check out the Aperture Summer Party on Thurs. Basic tickets are $50, but $150 gets you this 8″x10″ Thomas Allen print, created specifically for this event:

Thomas Allen, Beachcomber, 2009, edition of 250
There’ll be live music and a raffle for a Matthew Pillsbury print as well.
Thursday, [...]

Hunting stirs up passionate feelings in America. Seems pretty much anyone random person has an opinion about it, usually stridently for or against. It’s not a passive topic. Sometimes an outside pair of eyes might shed a new perspective on things.
I received an all-too-brief email last week from hassla books, announcing “First, jay comes”, photographs [...]

Naoki Honjo’s tilt-shift photography illustrates an article in today’s NY Times Magazine about new Parisian architecture.

Web-denizens have been inundated by examples of this technique, which mimics macro photography of railroad models. The Times‘ general audience is perhaps not so familiar, so the editors have helpfully included a guarantee of reality:
“All photographs for this article [...]