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Agenda Exhibitions to See

PHOTOGRAPHY

Viewfinder • Qiana Mestrich’s archive of pictures of Black women at work tells a story about labor and race.

Collecting • An exhibition about Life revives the history of a fabled newsmagazine for the present.

Backstory • Gordon Parks’s photographs of the activist Stokely Carmichael portray a strident vision of the Black Power movement.

Curriculum Sam Contis

Reference

Grace Wales Bonner The Researcher

Between Art and Function • What purpose does a photograph serve?

Jojo Gronostay The Repros

Under the Influence • Playing with the tension between photography and design, two architects create a novel form of image making.

The Troublemakers • Handmade or photocopied, handed out or posted through the mail, zines operate outside of traditional publishing networks—and counter the preciousness of the print.

Deborah Turbeville A Passport to Fashion • Thessaly La Force considers how Turbeville’s previously unseen photo-novella—discovered in the photographer’s archive—reveals a strange and beautiful world.

James Welling Cento

Stephanie Syjuco Latent Images

Sheida Soleimani Absolute Powers

Katrien de Blauwer True Stories

William Kentridge The Excess of the Studio

The PhotoBook Review

The Language of the Book

Reviews

Endnote Laurie Simmons