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Extreme contrast – William Larson and Phillip Toledano at Gallery 339

On entering Gallery 339, currently hosting work by William Larson and Phillip Toledano, your first sight is of an array of white panels, each adorned with a print of bold swaths of color and filmstrips. William Larson’s exhibition The Cut is the latest iteration of the legendary photographer’s lifelong study of the ways in which recording motion and time can be altered. Upstairs, Phillip Toledano’s series, A New Kind of Beauty, examines the often extreme measures people will go to for physical beauty.

Taxonomies In Review at Gallery 339

In Review’s 10 photographers seem deeply immersed in thoughts about the fragility of the human condition and the slipperiness of reality.  The photographers are also into taxonomies – groups of barns, humans, animals, buildings, teenagers and more.  The show, at Gallery 339, is full of quirky and sometimes hallucinatory imagery.

In focus

Gallery 339’s 10-artist summer show, In Review, doesn’t quite come together as a statement about contemporary photography—the fluffy press release extols the work’s “lively, complex, and intelligent dialogue about meaningful issues.” Nonetheless, the uniformly polished work is attractive and occasionally insightful.