“Transformations: American Photographs from the 1970s” and “In the Right Place: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback,” both run through July.
In the 1970s, photography took off. It was already vibrant , but by the 1970s, the art form that spent its first century and a half never quite able to prove itself as such was suddenly finding its way into more galleries and museums. It was serving as a site of experimentation—not just with form but also process, and what a photograph or a body of photographs could represent.
In his series of headshots, Charles Gaines experimented with making faces into grids, their traits and features blurred in a way that seems to warn us against the profiling that is already AI-ing us into databases. As Gaines showed in 1978, such systems have trouble distinguishing between—just for starters—Black and white. But, then again, seeing a face presented as crude data reminds us of the power of a lens in collaboration with an actual human body.
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