Exhibition Review of Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography at Dulwich Picture Gallery

An exhibition review I wrote for FRAMES Magazine. Read here.

Excerpt below:

‘The city has long been a subject in photography, a place in which the inexhaustible rhythm of life is revealed through its changing streets, communities, and everyday moments. One only has to think of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates by Louis Daguerre, produced in 1838, depicting the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, a busy thoroughfare that appears almost deserted due to the long exposure time required by early photographic processes. More recently, generations of photographers across the Atlantic have likewise turned their attention to the urban environment, constructing visions of the city that reflect the social, political, and cultural conditions of their time.’