Presence: The Invisible PortraitChris Bucks Presence is a book of celebrity portraits. Its just that we cant see them. Buck, whose career straddles the conceptual and the commercial, convinced fifty public figures to have their portrait taken, but hide from sight somewhere in the frame. Paired with each invisible portrait is a signed witness statement affirming the sitters being in the shoot. Page after page, were quietly hoping to find some piece of the sitter peeking out, proving

“I think of myself as a visual artist working in the medium of photography

in addition to students of art criticism and the interested reader alike

melding into the landscape or moving out of the frame

Joselito Vershaeve interweaves black and white photographs of both day-to-day encounters and staged fiction from archives of the artist's own work

where the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems

then traveled to the Aperture Foundation in New York City (November 2016) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (March 2017)

blurred into images about the exquisite fragility of life

She lives in New York

staged tableaux

is a collection of large format color photographs depicting queer identities and interiors within the context of community and care

Gilden’s camera points toward the darker sides of Japanese life—the gangsters

Guido doesn’t hold his eye to the viewfinder and instead relies on chance: “I took [the photographs] joyfully