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Sarah Meister in Conversation with Four Artists, Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards, Delpire & Co, December 5, 2020

 
 
 

SFMoMA Artist Initiative, May 10, 2019

 
 

AT THE MUSEUM: How to tell if an abstract photo is vertical or horizontal

MAM, MASP, MoMA: Photography as Abstract Art (Sarah’s talk begins at 1:10)

 
 
 

The act of looking
The Economist

Interview with Joy of Giving Something, Inc, about careers in Photography to inform young people about the curatorial field.

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View fullsize A week from today I’m thrilled to be chatting about Fotoclubismo and more with my esteemed colleague Heloisa Espada... please join us! (link to register in bio) Pictured here is André Carneiro’s Rails (Trilhos) from 1951 that the
View fullsize Yup. Just like this. #nofilter
View fullsize Someone REALLY doesn’t like it when I take out my suitcase...
View fullsize Choosing the paint colors for my final exhibition @themuseumofmodernart #oldnavy #yellowgreen #fotoclubismo Thanks to Amanda Washburn for her inspired choices for the book, and to Hiroko Ishikawa for helping me translate it to the gallery space...
View fullsize Heartfelt thanks for this opportunity to reflect on the 12 photos that have shaped my career to date (link in bio... gold star for anyone who can guess half before reading it?) “For many people interested in photography, even those who are too
View fullsize This weekend I (almost) finished my essay about the amazing Gertrudes Altschul for a forthcoming retrospective @masp To give just a glimmer of insight into her practice, here are three spreads that feature her work in the FCCB’s 1957 Anu&aacu
View fullsize Doubling down on my loyalties, not dividing... Thank you @aperturefnd for my first bit of #aperture swag!
View fullsize Just bought mine... the other is already sold out. @photogreenbook @zorajmurff #white
View fullsize Happy Valentines Day! Thomaz Farkas (a founding member of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante) loved a young woman named Melanie, and his parents didn’t approve. So in 1948 they sent him to the United States where he met with Edward Weston in CA an
View fullsize One of oh-so-many gems in Paul Graham’s But Still, It Turns at @icp which just opened today (I believe?) In any case, it’s brilliant. See it. Congratulations Paul, and the marvelous mix of artists, listed here in the perplexing order of t
View fullsize On the horizon for this weekend? And perhaps discussion at my final Seeing Through Photographs Office Hour TODAY (1:30pm EST)? Photo Brut at the @afamuseum where this work by Steve Ashby and 400 (!) others are view. In her enticing review in @nytimes
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View fullsize Just when I thought my week couldn’t get any better, look what showed up on my doorstep last night! The first copy of #fotoclubismo which will be my last exhibition @themuseumofmodernart But what a way to go! The dense acknowledgments begin t
View fullsize Looking forward to leading the amazing team @aperturefnd and reflecting with gratitude on the singular privilege of working with so many brilliant colleagues @themuseumofmodernart for so many years. Heartfelt thanks to @naimagreen for this portrait
View fullsize “It is no exaggeration to say that our present is the future that Lange’s images foretold; the crisis of agriculture in the face of toxic capitalism and climatic disaster that is at the center of her famous photographs might also have ser
View fullsize Palmira Puig Giró was another talented member of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, and also the wife of FCCB member Marcel Giró. This is a slight #instacrop of a photo of hers from about 1960 that I’d love to see hanging alongside
View fullsize I just might have the kindest group of Instagram followers on the planet... no one gave me a hard time for having reposted two photos (albeit with new captions). Alternate interpretation: no one remembers (I didn’t). Anyhoo, here’s a new
View fullsize One of the things I love about the band of amateur photographers in Fotoclubismo is the way their lives and their art were closely connected. Children often tagged along on excursions, and the relatively generous presence of women is explained in par
View fullsize "I’ve always felt that the writing of art history and art criticism in [the United States] has been tendentious and ideologically narrowing. So I thought the first thing to do was simply to set the precedent for writing that was sharp and

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