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Review| March 01 2023 Exhibition Review: Paul Anthony Smith: Standing In Paul Anthony Smith: Standing In. Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston TX. October 22, 2022–March 12, 2023. Anton Lee Anton Lee Anton Lee is an art historian specializing in the history and theory of photography and is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2023) 50 (1): 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.55 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Anton Lee; Exhibition Review: Paul Anthony Smith: Standing In. Afterimage 1 March 2023; 50 (1): 55–61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.55 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Photography’s relationship to its subject has often been explained through the metaphor of skin. Skin demarcates the borders where our body meets the external world, thus serving the purpose of visual identification, on the one hand, and functioning as a façade for disguise and self-expression on the other. Photography, owing to the widespread belief in its accuracy, is commonly associated with the ability to apprehend things and people, and classify them into specimens and types. It is in this context that one of the early inventors of the stereoscope, Oliver Wendell Holmes, proposed in 1859 to flay every surface of the world with the aid of the camera, just as men would hunt cattle for their beautiful skins in South America.1 This understanding of photography, however, comes with the caveat that its supposed truthfulness can only be skin deep. In other words, skin is also a veil on which... You do not currently have access to this content.
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