Three Summer Photography Shows

Group exhibitions on both coasts that explore and survey the current state of the medium

As the art season slows down for the summer months and galleries take a breather from the rush of global art fairs, many gallerists take this time to identify and unify themes that reflect some of the concepts being expressed by contemporary artists, and put together group shows. Here are three wonderful shows on both coasts that are surveying the current direction of photography. “The …

Café Racers: Speed, Style and Ton-up Culture

A highly visual survey of 1960s British sub-culture inspired motorcycle designs

Spawned from a 1960s sub-culture of street-racing British rock’n’rollers, the café racer has become a highly admired genre of motorcycle design. Hallmarked by highly modified UK and Italian bikes stripped down to run races on open roads between actual cafés, the handsome, often low-cc, bikes are as popular now as ever—though the original sub-culture itself only “existed” for a decade at most. Paying homage to …

The Public Profile of An American Girl

Photographer Jenna Garrett turns the ubiquitous selfie into a visual discourse at Aperture Summer Open

As of September 2013, Facebook reported that 350 million new photos were uploaded each day—and Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities dictates that under the public setting anyone can access and use that information. Raising questions about privacy, internet behavior, self-exploitation and more, photographer Jenna Garrett sifts through the intangible number of publicly available images on Facebook for her series “The Public Profile of An …