Paperbase: Visualizing the Material History of Black and White Paper
Throughout the twentieth century, photography was fundamentally a paper-based medium, and photographic papers have played a crucial role in shaping the medium’s history and practice. However, little…
Otto Steinert:
A Treasure Trove of 22 Prints Goes to Auction
He left his mark on German post-war photography like no other. Otto Steinert spanned the arc from New Seeing to Subjective Photography, broke with the conventions of documentary photography, and…
A Second Lease of Life -
Sitters and PhotographersPart Three: Mrs. Budden (sitter) and Dr. Budden (photographer)
I was recently offered an amateur stereo card showing an elderly lady, sitting on a chair on the lawn of a fenced garden. As it appears to be a hot and sunny day she is in the shade of a nearby…
Patrick Pound: The Collection is the Medium . . . continued
In the Autumn 2021 issue of The Classic, we spoke to Melbourne-based artist Patrick Pound about how his vernacular photography collecting informs his art practice. In 2014, Pound installed an…
A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art Museum
by Alexandra Moschovi
Where does photography stand in today’s art museum? And how did it arrive there? These questions are at the heart of Alexandra Moschovi’s new book, A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art…
The Democratic Picture: Grace McCann Morley and Photography in the San Francisco Museum of Art
The San Francisco Museum of ArtThe author would like to thank the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives for kindly allowing the publication of the cited archival material and photographs, the…
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
by Catherine McKinley
In Spring 2020, when writer and curator Catherine McKinley spoke to The Classic about her photography collection, our correspondence was filled with excitement – the specific kind of ebullience that…