The front cover of the newest issue of Time Magazine shows a mother breastfeeding a boy who appears old enough to make himself a sandwich. The caption on the bottom right hand corner of the photograph seeks to clarify the boy’s age as it reads “Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, and her 3-year-old son”. The assumption…
Alessandra Sanguinetti, Cecilia, Buenos Aires, 1995 Alessandra Sanguinetti’s photographs, recently on display in the London print room of the esteemed photography agency Magnum, seek to capture the elusive process commonly referred to as ‘coming of age’. The first six photographs in the exhibition are from a series called ‘Sweet Expectations’ in which Sanguinetti photographed young…
Stan Douglas, ‘Suspect, 1950’, 2010 ‘Have I seen these images before?’ one might wonder while looking at Stan Douglas’ new series of photographs currently on display at the Victoria Miro gallery. Presented under the title ‘Midcentury Studio’, the meticulously constructed black and white photographs appear to be taken in the 1940s and 50s by using…