Stephen Frailey - Looking at Photography journal press

Stephen Frailey - Looking at Photography journal pressDamiani 2020 Inspired by John Szarkowskis 1973 'Looking at Photographs', and paying homage to the concept of the one hundred images and a page of text for each, Stephen Frailey now updates this classic with significant works of photography from mid 70s to the present. 'Looking at Photography' covers all genres of photography, and through discussing the significance of the individual works Frailey as photographer, editor and educator articlulates the

Just as the American Dream is coming of age and gradually deteriorating

The book unfolds as a meditation on desire and belief

Homma forms ghostly images of the mountain as it resides to the southwest of Tokyo in collaged views that place it ambiguously in the wider landscape – both invoking and subverting the spectacle it has come to be associated with

She has consistently sought to challenge readers to think afresh about the social uses of photography and their broader contexts and far-reaching effects

Acédia: a state of pain and affliction linked to a lack of motivation

In a way these pictures mark the beginning of a trip I never returned from

his new book from Peperoni Books

seeing the best and the worst of humanity

Sohier made portraits of people living in Boston’s many working class and ethnic neighborhoods

it sat in a moving box in my new flat share

uniform housing estates

usually presided over by a middle-aged woman