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Des Moines Art Center Print Gallery’s exhibition “Double Take” attempts to make a photographer’s involvement as much a part of the medium as his subject. Curator Laura Burkhalter and guest curator Ben Easter (a superb photographer himself) selected pairs of images — “one of which is a staged or pose

The a href= http://phillipscollection.org target= _blank Phillips Collection /a announces recent acquisitions, including major works that enrich g

Including important works by photographers Frank Stewart, Aaron Siskind, and Zanele Muholi, and artists Sanford Biggers, Linling Lu, and Marta Pérez García

“It’s about a longing for human connection,” says gallerist Daniel Cooney of Scarlet Muse, an exhibition spanning 150 years of sex work as told in photographs. The history of prostitution is, he suggests, deeply enmeshed with that of photography; seekers of pleasure, of love, and of inspiration have turned time and again to doorsteps of the bordellos.