The Holiday Gift Guide for the Photo Enthusiast 2024

 

The Pentax 17!

 

 

A new film camera? It's half frame, which can save you some bucks. It has a metal frame. I first saw this on Jon Canlas's dashboard on his feed:

 

 

Here's a fun review here. Sign me up. $499. 

 

If you don't want to shell out 500 bones, the Kodak Ektar might be more your speed. $46.

David Campany, curator and writer, explores photography with just 120 photographs. The order is not chronological, which makes for a pretty interesting read. $32.50.

 

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Introspective Portrait of Her Own Ageing Body. $65. 

 

See Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream at Hessel Museum of Art at Bard, Free. 

I initially didn't understand the utility of an Instax printer (can't you just use the camera?). But it's been really fun to take random digital photos and print them as Instax minis. $90. 

See this groundbreaking exhibition of work by Kelli Connell (American, born 1974) that reconsiders the complicated relationship between writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston from a contemporary queer and feminist perspective. High Museum of Art. $23.50. 

The book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, $30.95.

 

And then see Superfine at the Met. Non-residents, $30.