La Méthode is Laurent Millet's newest body of work, a series of photographs that portray fragile, fantastical houses on the shore. For the first time, Millet pairs his black and white photographs with color images. Constructed of found objects, these small, inanimate buildings have a life of their own; some sprout legs of rusted wire or gnarled branches from their brilliant orange and yellow facades. Continue → Battleground Point is part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series; this installment documents the rare presence of water in the Nevada desert. Every decade or so, heavy winter storms batter the desert of northern Nevada, filling the Carson and Humboldt Rivers beyond capacity and flooding the Carson Sink. As high waters receded from the sink in the mid-1980s, hundreds of graves slowly emerged from the mud. Archaeologists accounted for 416 individuals who lived in the area over the course of 3,000 years, some of whom may be the genetic ancestors of today's Toidikadi (also called the Stillwater Paiute). Continue → The photographs of Artur Nikodem were not exhibited or discussed outside of the studio until after his death. The images presented in Photographic Essays on Intimacy examine this rarely seen aspect of his creative life. Although he worked as a painter for the bulk of his artistic career, he was also a prolific photographer, documenting the small towns and pastoral beauty of the Austrian countryside as well as the women in his life. Continue →