SALLY MANN, AT TWELVE, PORTRAITS OF YOUNG WOMEN, 1988
At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood…
RAYMOND THOMPSON JR, THE TRAUMA OF WHITE LIGHT
The trauma of white light features appropriated photographs created by the Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s. These images are reprinted on living tobacco leaves using the chlorophyll printing technique…
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, LEATHER PICTURES
He treated a man clad in leather or latex with the same grace that he captured a flower: like a modern Midas with a camera, everything he touched turned to black-and-white beauty…
MARK MCKNIGHT, IN THIS TEMPORARILY PREVAILING LANDSCAPE, 2018 - PRESENT
Landscapes and queer bodies appear in flux as McKnight blurs a multitude of formal and figurative boundaries: earth and flesh, self and subject, artist and documentarian…
COLLIER SCHORR, WRESTLERS
I like devastation. I like exhaustion. I really like seeing someone that I know can’t barely get up…
ANNE NOGGLE, WORLD WAR II WOMEN PILOTS
With black and white photography, Anne Noggle (1922–2005) confronts themes of gender equality and aging through portraits of World War II women pilots in the United States and the Soviet Union…
RAMELL ROSS, SOUTH COUNTY, AL (A HALE COUNTY), 2012
Having lived, worked, and photographed in Hale County, Alabama, for almost ten years, RaMell Ross has produced a series of quietly powerful photographs—South County, AL (a Hale County)—that meditate on the myths of blackness in the American South…
LORRAINE O’GRADY, BODY IS THE GROUND OF MY EXPERIENCE
BodyGround, shorthand for Body Is the Ground of My Experience, refers to the photomontages produced by O’Grady for her first one-person exhibit, at INTAR Gallery, NYC, Jan 21–Feb 22, 1991…
VALIE EXPORT, GENITAL PANIC
Genitalpanik (Genital Panic) is a series of photographs and posters that emerged from an action VALIE EXPORT performed in Munich in 1968…
JOIRI MINAYA, THE CLOAKING SERIES
The Cloaking series challenges the presence of colonial statues in urban spaces, using colorful spandex fabric to conceal and simultaneously bring attention to these monuments, questioning which narratives get memorialized and which are omitted…
SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE
Like many cities in the world Lagos is a city of extremes. Individuals who fit into the mould of heteronormativity (especially those protected by wealth) are considered worthy of protection and celebration while others (feminised, queer and poor bodies) are rendered invisible and unworthy…
LINDA TROELLER, TB-AIDS DIARY
The careful assemblage of personal images and texts that make up Linda Troeller's TB-AIDS Diary confronts the social stigma of disease in a manner that is at once gentle and uncompromising…
ALVIN BALTROP, THE PIERS
Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s…
ELLIOTT JEROME BROWN JR, SELF-TITLED EXHIBITION, 2022
The exhibition presented a series of new portraits and abstract photographs as a reflection on materiality, memory, and intimacy…
DEANA LAWSON, AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH, 2018
This is the first monograph on the photography of Deana Lawson, who has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals…
TEXAS ISAIAH, MY NAME IS MY NAME
My Name is My Name incorporates photography and a system of celebration (altar) to highlight the multi-dimensional relationship between ancestry, ceremonial rituals, elements within nature, dream etching, and protection…
CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023
“The suitcase is a little bit rotten” is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War…
PINAR YOLAÇAN, MOTHER GODDESS
Mother Goddess, published by Baron, showcases the work of artist Pinar Yolaçan and serves as an artefact of her visual explorations of the body, along the themes of gender and otherness…
CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS
Her first recorded self-portraits are dated as early as 1912, when the artist was about 18. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name…
BARBARA NITKE, RESURRECTION, 1991-1994
By the late eighties, the hardcore porn industry had left New York and moved out to California. People who were serious about their adult film careers moved with the business, but I loved New York too much to leave. I stayed behind and found other things to do…