Good evening, My thanks to the Andy Warhol Foundation for my selecting me as a Finalist for their Arts Writers Award out of 500 they said they considered across all the Arts. It’s one of the most prestigious awards in Art writing. While I wasn’t one of the 27 winners, after eight years and 4 […]
This site is Free & Ad-Free! If you find this piece worthwhile, please donate to support it & independent Art writing. Thank you. Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Show Seen- William Klein: YES @ ICP William Klein, who passed away at 94 on September 10th, was a big name for so long, creating legendary and […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava This is Part 3 of my series on the end of The Met Breuer also concludes my look at what I saw before the March 12th “temporary closing,” Part 1 looked at some of the history of the Breuer building, Part 2 looked at some of the most memorable […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Three years in to my “deep dive” into the world of Modern & Contemporary Photography and PhotoBooks, I find myself at a crossroads. I’ve seen thousands of books, hundreds of Photography shows. I’ve answered most of the questions I had going into this exploration about Photography and its place […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) Late one March afternoon, winding up a long day of looking at The Photography Show/AIPAD, 20171, having seen thousands of Photographs and almost as many PhotoBooks, I was stopped in my tracks when I saw this at Aperture Foundation’s booth- Who is Gregory Halpern, I wondered? That night […]
Written by Kenn Sava. Photos as credited. “Another day in Kandahar I must focus now Think of the frame Think of each side of the rectangle Focus on the frame Stay calm under fire Focus your mind Acknowledge the danger And work Everything happens so fast I must control my mind Relax and get the […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*unless otherwise credited) Maybe it was an Lp or CD that had this effect on you. I’ve been there too many times to count. More recently, it’s been PhotoBooks that I’ve related to. When I first saw House Hunting, it went right through me. It was akin to an […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava PhotoBooks are a phenomenom. As documented by Gerry Badger’s and Martin Parr in their The PhotoBook: A History (three volumes), or Andrew Roth in his The Book of 101 Books, a truly great PhotoBook is akin to a great album (Lp or CD), a great Film, even a great […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*unless otherwise credited) I love The Photography Show. After all, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, who present it, and I, have a core value in common- a passion for Fine Art Photography. More commonly referred to as AIPAD (as I will henceforth), the show is the only […]
Written by Kenn Sava. Photos by Kenn Sava & Kris Graves Projects Kris Graves, and his publishing company, Kris Graves Projects (+KGP), shocked many in the Photography and PhotoBook world when he released the ten-volume set, LOST, almost exactly a year ago. The shock at its size quickly turned to admiration once the quality of […]