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One Fine Show: “Ann Hamilton, still and moving • the tactile image” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

The works in the exhibition explore the relationship between tactile realities and captured images by transforming fragile historical artifacts into powerfully striking visual statements.

It’s impossible to know what’s being taught in American high schools these days, but I hope they’re still teaching photography classes with darkrooms, and that under those red lights students make pinhole cameras. Phone cameras and Instagram have made photography the dominant medium of the age, but capturing an image with one’s bare hands can change how you see everything. The first photo I took this way was an up-close imprint of the brick wall near the smoking area for goth students. I didn’t smoke then and wasn’t sure it would work. The result looked like the surface of another planet. It was blurry and chunked in ways that were unexpected but appealing.

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