Favorite Art Photographers Who’ve Flown Under Radar

The April issue of Modern Painters Magazine is dedicated to photography (here). Curator and critic Vince Aletti introduces some of his favorite photographers who have heretofore flown under the radar (here). It’s always interesting and educational to read why someone is attracted to a series of photographs and here’s a few excerpts from Vince explaining why he picked these 5 photographers.

Mohamed Bourouissa “…he’s one of the few photographers making staged pictures that really feel exciting (a word I use sparingly) and believable…”

Ken Kitano “Japanese photographer Ken Kitano has been making composite portraits of groups of people, layering image upon image until one common face and a rather ghostly body emerges. It sounds gimmicky (and, yes, Nancy Burson was there first) but the results are gorgeous and mysterious…”

Dietmar Busse “…I think he’s reinvented himself over the past few years and is making black-and-white portraits of people in the downtown scene that are for once not bohemian clichés. I’m particularly interested in his double exposures — something I never thought I’d say about anyone…”

Viviane Sassen “Her photographs, taken in Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, and Tanzania, tease fashion conventions but with really witty and unexpected results, partly because her subjects are all young Africans who seem to have enjoyed collaborating with her.”

Bruce Wrighton “He took straightforward and rather artless color photos of people and places, but it’s the portraits that really hooked me. His subjects, mostly posed outdoors standing before building walls in natural sunlight, are stunningly ordinary, and I couldn’t stop looking at them.”