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Peripheral Visions opens tonight at Candela Books + Gallery

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Douglas Barkey

https://candelabooks.com/announcing-peripheral-vision/ Amy Ritchie Johnson has curated Peripheral Vision which opens tonight at Candela Books + Gallery from 5 – 9pm. The exhibition essay describes the exhibition and her interest in exploring: “a trend in contemporary [straight] photography growing in the long shadow of the traditional ‘view of … Continue reading →

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Lisa Elmaleh & Brandon Thibodeaux at Candela Gallery + Books

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Candela Gallery currently features a pair of exhibitions of portraits that explore two different communities. Lisa Elmaleh used a large format tintype camera to make studied portraits of folk musicians in the Appalachian Mountains, while Brandon Thibodeaux photographed  individuals in … Continue reading →

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Michael Snow – Disrupting the Suspension of Disbelief, Part I

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Part 1: Simultaneous compression. When we pick up a camera and frame a composition in the viewfinder, we do so with a number of key assumptions about what happens when we press the shutter button and capture an exposure. A … Continue reading →

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2014 Sony World Photography Awards – shortlist reviews

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

There were over 140,000 entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, so it is a comprehensive world survey of what is going on in photography today and close to a miracle to make the shortlist for the competition! I’ve … Continue reading →

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Larry Cook and Annette Isham at The Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington D.C.

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Although “Woman and Landscape” and “From an Eighth to a Key” occupy the same exhibit space at The Hamiltonian Gallery, each artist addresses different themes with distinct approaches and media – these are separate exhibits installed apart in the same … Continue reading →

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Critical Review: Maggie Taylor at Candela Gallery – “Subject to Change”

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Douglas Barkey

The exhibit of Maggie Taylor’s work, “Subject to Change” at Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, is an intriguing and fanciful collection of photographs that seem like artifacts unearthed from the Victorian era and re-assembled by a surrealist archaeologist. Taylor’s images … Continue reading →

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Revolution in a Photograph – Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and Ai Weiwei

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Douglas Barkey

Two photographs published by artists of themselves have generated a great deal of controversy recently. The geographic and cultural distance between the two artists is worlds apart, but their response to repression through a photograph and it’s distribution through the … Continue reading →

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