BP is up to her usual visual games, where the same object
is photographed at the same time from varying inventive vantage points to
create very different looking pictures. Honestly, I was a little underwhelmed.
It’s not unlike work you already know of hers that certainly has felt fresher. Her
images have become pro-forma. Heck, even MoMA has rehung their permanent
collection in a refreshing self-examining of photography, which illustrates the
mechanics of the medium. BP just doesn’t feel as contrary and avant-garde as
she once did. That being said, she has gotten really good at what she does. The
twelve-picture, multiple floor, interior, exterior image of an apple, shot at
what appears to be the same moment, is a tour de force, clearly illustrating
how something is photographed creates meaning. It may still be a needed lesson
in the visual learning of your average art viewer, but by comparison to the
last two Paul Graham shows, BP seems rather safe.
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