CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/15/2016

Erica Baum: The Naked Eye

A real artist's book is a beautiful thing. Erica Baum: The Naked Eye, launching tonight at Printed Matter, is such a book. Cathleen Chaffee writes, "Like apparitions, Baum’s vivified subjects emerge from a soup of visual cultural material, and their resistance makes them feel distinctly relevant: to the way we remember; to our changing relationship with books and technology; to our ongoing romance with fiction. But
all this, as Baum’s photographs also critically remind us, has already taken place. They oblige us to consider the precariousness of our own viewpoint—a present moment that, even now, is also retreating into the pulpy background."