New Yorker: Goings on About Town: Noguchi Rika

NOGUCHI RIKA
This Japanese-born, Berlin-based photographer shows a series of modestly scaled color images of landscapes nearly blotted out by the sun that were included in the 2008 Carnegie International. Shooting into the sun is usually an amateur photographer’s mistake, resulting in a brilliant, starlike flare and uncontrolled overexposure, both of which are further exaggerated in these pictures by the artist’s use of a homemade pinhole camera. Barbara Ess has been here before, but the low-tech expressionist effect remains seductive—dreamy and quasi-visionary, all the more so in this dramatic installation, with each picture individually lit in a darkened gallery. Through June 20.

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