Books: 100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane

There's tremendous beauty in the everyday, though that's easy to forget that amidst quarantine fatigu

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There’s tremendous beauty in the everyday, though that’s easy to forget that amidst quarantine fatigue. Such beauty abounds in Women Street Photographers, a collection of stunning unstaged photographs by 100 artists of all ages. As Karen Chernick writes, the book is one of many recents projects that “bolster an understanding that women have always taken photographs, since the earliest days of the medium.”Looking for more of the resplendent mundane? Check out David Rothenberg’s pre-pandemic portraits of Queens commuters and our review of the Getty’s Visualizing Empire, which catalogues in incisive detail the ways in which the French imperial agenda trickled down into the realm of board games, posters, and more.Happy reading.—Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane A new book compiles unstaged public photographs by 100 artists of all ages, hailing from 31 countries spanning Ghana to Iran. Karen Chernick

A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming. Megan N. Liberty

Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through” The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete. Mark Scroggins

Lessons on Propaganda: "Visualizing Empire" Counters the Colonial Archive The Getty volume is replete with vital lessons on studying and historicizing imperial ephemera. Alexandra M. Thomas

“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic David Rothenberg photographed passersby between 2019 and March 2020 at a subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens. Lauren Moya Ford

SPONSORED A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.

How Kuniko Tsurita Broke the Mold for Women Comic Artists in Japan The Sky Is Blue With a Single Cloud shines a light on Tsurita’s short but innovative career. Megan N. Liberty

The City as Seen From a Hi-Rise Window Ed Roberson’s poems express a troubled awareness of the earth’s exhaustion. James Gibbons

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