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Photo Realness: The Queer Aesthetics of Photography

The six artists in “Photo Realness: The Queer Aesthetics of Photography” are not all, or not strictly, photographers. Yet each artist exploits the dynamism of the photographic medium to slightly different ends. With an emphasis on portraiture, “Photo Realness” explores the performativity of photography, which in the age of social media, we can understand as the playfulness of photography, the ease with which this ubiquitous medium allows for the public projection of a private self. In the 21st century, photography has transformed from its …