photography
text by JULIANA BALESTIN
Sam Falls is a member of the new generation of photographers who push the limits of the medium beyond the mechanical limitations of the camera. When he does use a camera — often it’s a large-format one — Falls looks at the world from a very personal, almost romantic perspective, as his pictures of his horse and his mother and the close-ups of the window or a corner of a room all duly attest. Falls’s expansive, everything-is-important philosophy allows him to work with different materials and a wide variety of subjects. For “Somewhere To Go,” his first exhibition at the OHWOW project space in Los Angeles, he exposed fabrics and colored construction paper to light, using a process recalling the root of photography itself — as a light-graphing medium. The results often look like simple abstract painting, while calling to mind the plastic possibilities of photography, a medium that is perpetually evolving.
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BEST of the SEASON
by Terry Richardson and Carine Roitfeld
The Balenciaga Boutiques
interview with Nicolas Ghesquière and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
by Olivier Zahm
by Spencer Sweeney
by Alex Israel
by Caroline Gaimari
by Glenn O'Brien
by Olivier Zahm
by Sabine Heller
by Nathaniel Goldberg
by Camille Bidault Waddington
by Gardar Eide Einarsson
by Max Snow
by Robert Longo
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Anuschka Blommers and Neils Schumm
by Terry Richardson
by Paola Kudacki
by Ari Marcopoulos
interview with Nicolas Ghesquière and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
by Olivier Zahm