Category: Critical Reviews (Non-Peer-Reviewed)
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Review: FRED RITCHIN. THE SYNTHETIC EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY TRANSFORMED IN THE AGE OF AI | THAMES & HUDSON (November 2025)
In The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI, Fred Ritchin offers a profound reflection on the transformation of photography in the era of artificial intelligence. He examines the new forms of generated images as well as the epistemological, social, and ethical issues raised by this “synthetic vision.”
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Review: BATHERS BY RUTH KAPLAN | DAMIANI (November 2025)
In Bathers, Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores public baths as a primordial stage where the human body appears in all its vulnerable splendor. By photographing spaces of shared nudity, she seeks to capture bodies freed from social artifices, suspended between modesty and revelation.
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Review: Japan Art Revolution, From Angura To Provoke | Amélie Ravalec (November 2025)
Amélie Ravalec’s Japan Art Revolution. From Angura to Provoke revisits one of the most incendiary moments in Japanese visual history, born from the ruins of a nation scarred by war and occupation. The author shows how, in the 1960s and 1970s, photography, theatre and politics intertwined to become the vectors of a shared revolt.
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Review: Fear of Mirrors by Alba Zari | XYZ Books and Yogurt Editions (November 2025)
Alba Zari’s book Fear of Mirrors explores the fragility of the gaze in a world saturated with images. The faces that appear seem to float between surface and depth, as if trying to hold on to something already slipping away. Each portrait questions the very possibility of self-recognition, now that the mirror has become a screen—ever-present, ever-watching.
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Review : EDWARD WESTON: BECOMING MODERN | MEP (October 2025)
The exhibition “Edward Weston — Modernity Revealed,” presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, traced the emergence of photographic modernity through more than one hundred vintage prints from the Wilson Centre for Photography.