Through her one-of-a-kind camera-less photograms, Academy Award-winning artist Zana Briski offers viewers a synthesis of art and the natural world, immersing viewers in the realm of wild creatures within their native habitats.
Based in California鈥檚 Central Valley, Matt Black produces highly narrative imagery deeply grounded in present-day societal and environmental disquietude.
Mimi Plumb's new exhibition Landfall offers an uneasy view into a world that is seemingly under threat and on the brink of nuclear war. Plumb's dystopian images provide the viewer with a narrative that is as much ominous as it is seductively mesmerizing and compassionately human.
It鈥檚 not too much of an exaggeration to compare the impact of digital technology on contemporary image-making to the revolution wrought by silver-nitrate photography in the mid-19thcentury.
From the UK to Switzerland, Iceland to the US, Aesthetica鈥檚 selection of must-see photography shows offers new and conceptual visions of the natural and urban landscape.
I don鈥檛 know if Ljubodrag Andric, whose show at Robert Koch Gallery (49 Geary St., S.F. www.kochgallery.com) has been extended through July 28, digitally enhances his stylishly minimal, sweetly colorful pictures of walls.
Expo Chicago has announced the participating galleries for the second annual International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art (Sept. 19-22) at Navy Pier's Festival Hall.