Josephine Pryde (born 1967, Alnwick, UK; lives Berlin and London) presents a new body of commissioned work for her first United States museum exhibition. In the context of the gallery, it could be said that the composition, lighting, and general style of Pryde’s photographs recall fashion and portrait photography, but this would ignore the fact that fashion and portrait photography refer to art photographs, snapshots, documentary footage, and more. A kind of loop develops in Pryde’s work, feeding back tropes and mutations in photographic traffic, and then presenting the results. Read more.
Josephine Pryde: lapses in Thinking By the person i Am
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
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