Reviews
Photo-Eye: The Hotel probes “complex relationships between photography, discretion, instinct, and appetite”
Odette England writes at Photo-Eye: Calle takes to words like a surgeon wielding a favorite ten-blade. Each sentence is a balance between rudimentary and essential. So too with her camera.
Washington Post reviews “It Is What It Is”: “weirdly haunting … manic determination”
Ron Charles at the Washington Post: “There’s something weirdly haunting about Kraft’s record with its manic determination and regularity.”
Bookforum reviews “It Is What It Is”: “art as a survival tactic”
Fran Bigman writes in Bookforum: “There’s a redemptive element … Kraft’s idea of art as a survival tactic that makes beauty out of ugliness.”
Lucy Ives in Frieze: The “book . . for Calle is a multivalent, carnal location”
Lucy Ives writes in Frieze: The “book for Calle is a multivalent, carnal location . . . You do not read The Hotel: you step into it, lie down, feel and smell.”
A deep dive into Memory by Bernadette Mayer at the New York Review of Books
The project has now been reconceived—brilliantly—as a book combining prose and photographs.
Two Siglio books chosen by the New York Times! Best Art Books of 2020 & Best Photography Books!
Holland Cotter chooses Frog Pond Splash (Ray Johnson) and Luc Sante chooses Memory by Bernadette Mayer!