Salt and Silver curator and the difficulty of representing

and the difficulty of representing any past without the theatricality of re-staging it

Lick Creek Line finds its tenor through the sleight-of-hand structure of a traditional photo essay

as well as the contingencies and uncanny correspondences that have shaped their exchange

In one of the neo-noir mise-en-scènes of Night

female–depiction of post-war life

Salt and Silver curator and the difficulty of representingSalt prints are the very first photographs on paper that still exist today. Made in the first twenty years of photography, they are the results of esoteric knowledge and skill. Individual, sometimes unpredictable, and ultimately magical, the chemical capacity to fix a shadow on light sensitive paper, coated in silver salts, was believed to be a kind of alchemy, where nature drew its own picture. Salt and Silver brings together over 100 plates drawn