Nancy Rexroth at Robert Mann

We may be on the verge of a backlash against large scale color photography. I'm seeing more small scale, black and white, alternative process stuff, like the Nancy Rexroth show at Robert Mann. Rexroth's "Iowa" was shot with the Diana toy camera, a medium format plastic dynamo that has caught on with the Williamsburg crowd in the form of the Holga. Yet, Rexroth's work was done in the early- to mid-70s, about the time all those hipsters were being born.

The show consists of 10x8 silver prints vignetted on the edges from the Diana's poor optics. All are blurred to a greater or lesser degree, but obviously that was Rexroth's intent. Personally I don't get the point of that sort of thing. Rexroth was previously highlighted on flux and mutability.

Through Jan. 8 at Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave.
(212) 989-7600