by Ann Landi | Jun 28, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
Elisa Decker’s photographs uncover the magic of the microcosm, the mysterious accidents awaiting discovery by the artist’s cunning eye. She has found enchanted landscapes in mud puddles and dreamlike worlds behind rain-streaked windows. In the images shown here, an...
by Ann Landi | Jun 12, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
Zoe Zimmerman has made her reputation as a photographer in black and white, using human subjects (“Of Men, Strength and Vulnerability” was one acclaimed series). But when Covid19 shut down contact with others, she needed to venture into new territory. After her...
by Ann Landi | May 18, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
My friend Dave Miller came to visit me in Taos about seven years ago, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend, a gorgeous season here when spring is in full bloom, even as the mountain peaks are still glazed with snow. Every year but this one, because of the...
by Ann Landi | Apr 5, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
We’ve all seen the photos of a city self-isolating—empty restaurants, mournful faces at apartment-house windows, supermarket shelves stripped bare—but there is an upbeat aspect to the pandemic that has ravaged New York perhaps more than any other city in the country....
by Ann Landi | Mar 10, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
In photography, among well-endowed museums and high-end galleries, the trend in recent years has been toward big and flashy, mammoth C-prints like those favored by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, and Thomas Struth. But the medium started out small and intimate and, of...
by Ann Landi | Feb 9, 2020 | Features, Photography Portfolio
When I first saw Jeff Baker’s photos, at his home and studio in Taos, NM, about five years ago, I immediately thought of Aaron Siskind, the photographer most closely associated with mid-century American abstraction. In many of his black-and-white images, Siskind...