Links you should read this week

Zoe Strauss and Alec Soth have had a great cross-blog conversation about portraiture, starting with an Avedon commentary about photographing Henry Kissinger. I have been meaning to write a post about the demise of the prevalence of the August Sander paradigm for photography, but these two posts underlined the other main model, which is the mugshot. Interestingly, the "professional" mugshot is designed to record the visual identity of an individual for future reference while August Sander intended to subjugate the individual in order to summarize entire archetypes in a single picture.

Jen Bekman predicts a resurgence of black & white photography. If you're interested, hike up to the Upper East Side to see the William Richardson show at Gitterman Gallery. And the Henry Wessell "moment" we're experiencing.