Photographs today are simulations, amalgams of effects and filters, whereas in the mechanical age (1840s–1960s) people tended to believe photographs were trace records, evidence—an indexical copy of something that was once in front of the camera. In other words, photographs were a disembodied specter. When looking at Charles Traub s photographs, we come to recognize the subject’s direct and causal connection is not to the camera but to the photographer’s eye.
NORTH HARMONY – What was once part of North Harmony’s very first settlement is now the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy’s twelfth large preserve, thanks t
NORTH HARMONY – What was once part of North Harmony’s very first settlement is now the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy’s twelfth large preserve, thank
Charles Traub aimed his lens at the inhabitants of the skid rows in uptown Chicago and downtown New York with an eye to bringing humanity to social invisibility.
Shellyne Rodriguez’s “Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling” is on view until April 22, 2023, at PPOW gallery (located at 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, New York). [Many thanks to Colin Torre for bringing this item to our attention.] P·P·O·W is pleased to present Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling, Shellyne Rodriguez’s (b.…