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Though it may be tempting to think that the deepest meaning of these photographs, perhaps even their ultimate point, is to be found beneath the surface of what they plainly show, Báez reminds us time and again how resolutely photographic they are, how thoroughly they are inscribed with the materiality of their making. Put differently, these pictures insist not only on the moment captured at the release of the shutter, they also vividly evoke the moments preceding it and those that followed. Time and duration—how they feel and how Báez registers them—are as crucial to these pictures as are their capacities for metaphor.

by Zach Ritter

Dashwood Books in New York 
Recommended by: Andreas Kokkino of Hyper Hypo in Athens
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Portrait of J

Takashi Homma

Takashi Homma's Portrait of J offers a steady, unflashy ledger of 111 Japanese faces photographed over two decades, and the power lies in its restraint. The images are set in everyday backdrops such as city streets, shop interiors, or plain facades, yet Homma isolates each subject in a buffer of space so the person emerges with quiet insistence.

Skin tones are rendered with a certain clarity of light, eyes caught in poise or drift, posture that speaks more than gaze. There is no elaborate staging or imposed narrative; instead the work trusts that a glance...

The Brooklyn-born photographer’s first monograph charts a course through her personal archive, from her early teenage portraiture to the present day