📸🧠“Rather than the cold, analytical gaze of a desensitized, unfeeling world sifting through history’s dustbin for some new outrage, this revisionism of taboo, layman photography expresses the opposite.

It is the same drive seen in the emotional nakedness these other artists strive consciously for a desire for bodies, nakedness, blood, tissue, sentiment, pain and a physical reality which points to the delicate connective tissue of universal, timeless human experiences as opposed to the present stiflingly of-the-moment condition.”—Felicia Feaster In this sharp, ambitious essay, Feaster liturgically charts how various lens-based artists have sought to capture reality. Comparing documentarians such as Joe Berlinger and Errol Morris with artists such as Nan Goldin and Jim Goldberg, Feaster looks at how, by rejecting objectivity, many lens-based artists arrive at truth 🔍✨ 🌐 Click the link in the @artpapers bio to read more. This text was originally published in ART PAPERS September/October 1998, Focus on Art and Film🍿🎬✨ . . . (1) Film still from Harmony Korine’s Gummo*, 1997;(2) Installation view, Nan Goldin, Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City, 1981, Photograph by Martin Seck, June 11, 2016 – April 16, 2017. IN2354.30. Image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, https://www.moma.org.