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Based in New York City, American artist Dario Calmese’s work treats photography as architecture: as a “built environment.” He uses film as a blueprint of sorts, constructing narratives to construct a more generative image – pivoting from what has been to what is and could be. The artist states that his blackness, queerness and Americanness inform his gaze, each taking turns as narrator and sometimes performing in fugue.

This series of black and white photographs features Lana Turner, a noted Harlem preservationist and doyenne of style whose extensive inventory of vintage fashion can be …