Archive for the “Photography” category
John Miller in Cologne
by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011
Miller’s work is always defined by a certain effortlessness at crossing the cerebral with the visual. In this, he is more motivated by his subject matter than any one particular mode of expression or conceptual framework. The result is that (…)
Attila Richard Lukacs at Johnen Galerie, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on June 1, 2011
The resurgent emergence of the Polaroid photograph as a proper medium in and of itself throughout the last decade can, I believe, be attributed to a social anxiety surrounding the increasing digitalization of practically every vital sphere. The Polaroid inevitably (…)
Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
by Travis Jeppesen on January 15, 2010
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work (…)
British Art Now
by Travis Jeppesen on December 5, 2009
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
Nan Goldin in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 28, 2009
“As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs.” My review of Nan Goldin’s current (…)
Mat Collishaw
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2009
“Now that postmodernism is beginning to appear an almost retro stance, it is artists like Collishaw, who interrogates histories through the disparate prisms of technologies recent and refurbished, that demonstrate how to make it new in even newer ways.” My (…)
Ricarda Roggan
by Travis Jeppesen on October 7, 2009
My review of Ricarda Roggan’s current Berlin show is now online at Artforum.
Federico Forlani
by Travis Jeppesen on September 22, 2009
Federico Forlani is one of a new breed of young Italian artists working in photography who, through an inventive configuration of the diaristic and the theatrical, explores the limitations of the self. With great sensitivity towards his subjects, which often (…)