Stephen Frailey
Stephen Frailey is a photographer and Chair Emeritus of SVA School of Visual Arts in New York. He founded the photography magazine Dear Dave in 2007 and remains Editor.
Amidst a profound state of civic anxiety, Imaging After Photography surveys generative practices that dwell in a snug longing for the past, a postponing of a future reckoning that the scholar Svetlana Boym terms “restorative nostalgia,” which lingers in aesthetic givens.
Black Photojournalism honors a considerable photographic legacy and the archives of the vigorous Black American communities from the end of World War II to the 1984 Presidential race of Jesse Jackson.
The exhibition Keisha Scarville: Passports 2012–2025 proposes a consortium of two diametric forms of portraiture, of the indexical and the expressive, that of a dull bureaucratic proxy and one endlessly interpretive and chameleon. Over the course of fourteen years, Scarville has embellished copies of her father’s passport picture, of which more than three hundred are here for viewing.
The Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation in A Coruña, Spain has revised Irving Penn: Centennial, a 2017 retrospective originating at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Trimmed by forty photographs, the pictures are now given nobility and breath on soaring walls in the exhibition space, making the galleries in New York, in retrospect, seem miserly.
