BLUR / OBSCURE / DISTORT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND PERCEPTION

Posted on 2025-06-16

Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception brings together photographs that are linked by the common objective of disrupting the viewer’s sense of time, space, place, or scale. Sometimes considered errors, photographic blur, distortion, and obfuscation have also been important creative and aesthetic strategies adopted by artists since the medium’s 19th-century inception. Highlighting photographs from the Norton’s Collection and a selection of special loans, this exhibition points to the constructed nature of perception and, in turn, photography’s vulnerability to manipulation even when it appears to show what is “real.”

Opposite – Whirling Melinda, Martin Kersels

Exhibition runs through to July 20th, 2025

Norton Museum of Art
1450 S. Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach
FL 33401

www.norton.org

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GEORGE DUREAU – PHOTOGRAPHS

Posted on 2025-06-09

A lifelong resident of New Orleans, George Dureau (1930–2014) turned to photography in the 1970s, having previously established himself as a painter. His lens captured a deeply personal circle of friends, lovers, and fellow eccentrics, many of whom existed on the margins of society. Dureau’s photographs are known for their rigorous composition and profound empathy, portraying his subjects with dignity, tenderness, and heroic strength.

While Dureau remains lesser known to the broader public, his work holds iconic status among artists, historians, and curators. His photographs are widely studied by a new generation of creative minds who revere not only his artistic mastery but also his radical inclusivity and compassionate worldview—qualities that feel more resonant now than ever.

Opposite – Jerry Cherry, 1983

Exhibition runs through to July 19th, 2025

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
1600 Lena Street, #F5
Santa Fe
NM 87505

www.danielcooneyfineart.com

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