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Lisette Model and the Cruelty of the Frame
Lisette Model's close, abrasive photographs made bodies feel impossible to evade. Her long-shelved jazz project reveals that the familiar “cruel camera” was only one part of the work—and that an artist's reputation can itself become a crop.
The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Produces Reality
A photograph can be factually authentic and still organize the world through captions, crops, assignments and repetition. Objectivity becomes credible only when journalism accounts for the decisions that turn an encounter into evidence and evidence into social identity.
How Photography Became Art—and Who Got to Decide
The camera made authorship difficult to see. Courts, critics and museums responded by treating pose, timing, printing and selection as evidence of an artist. Their answer admitted photography into art while leaving most ordinary photographs outside the story.
Adam Inglis is an Australian visual artist based in New York City, working across street photography and documentary. He approaches urban space as both social theatre and psychological landscape, where behaviour, cultural codes and unconscious dynamics intersect.