Amanda Ross-Ho’s artwork ‘The Character and Shape of Illuminated Things’ harnesses the contemporary urge to record and disseminate images — This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is part of a series of articles on artists and projects working with photographic images in the contemporary era. One of the things I enjoy about living in Los Angeles is the ample opportunity for observing art that at times appears to exist…

This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is part of a series of essays by Kate Palmer Albers about artists working with images in the contemporary era. There are really a lot of year-end top-ten photobook lists. One reason for the relatively recent surge in popularity of photobooks and their…

This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is part of a series of articles on artists and projects working with photographic images in the contemporary era. Recently, I Googled a friend’s name, and the first search result was the public record of her salary. This was not information I wanted…

(Or, Everything I Know about Alec Soth I Learned on Snapchat) — This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is part of a series of essays by Kate Palmer Albers about artists working with images in the contemporary era. There is no shortage of short biographies of Alec Soth. Most of them follow standard art world protocol for any artist biography: brief…

21st-century self-expression, hacked by 19th-century apparatus — This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is the second in a series of articles by Kate Palmer Albers about artists working with images in the contemporary era. I was introduced to the Large Format Selfie Stick (LFSS) via Snapchat which, in hindsight, seems just perfect. I almost never screenshot…

How one artist is making sense of filters, authorship, exchange, and digital ideas about analog photography — This post originally appeared on CirculationExchange.org. It is the first in a series of articles on artists and projects working with images in the contemporary era. Earlier this year, the New York-based artist Penelope Umbrico started an Instagram feed devoted to her project, “A Proposal and Two Trades,” which was…