Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

$15.00 at Whitney Museum of American Art.

Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now is a timely visual essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls ‘instructional’, it asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? If so, how might we look to them to demonstrate new possibilities, from social organising to self-actualisation? Alternating between found images and text-based observations, Winant delves into this new category of images through her own collection. Winant queries how…