Photography
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PORTRAIT COLLECTION An exhibit of more than 120 vintage and contemporary photographs depicting images of artists is on display through this weekend. The works in “Portraits of Artists,” which employ wide-ranging technical and formal approaches, come from the Rex Capital collection in Rhode Island. The exhibit includes works by Richard Avedon, Constantin Brancusi, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Ed Ruscha, and Cindy Sherman, among others. Through Saturday, February 4, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 W. 24th St., 212-206-9100, free.
FUTURE IMPERFECT Mary Mattingly’s digitally manipulated photographs are on display in “Second Nature.” Their subject matter is “the distant future of the human race.” In her imagined future, industrial civilization has fallen and people live as nomads, wearing their homes on their backs like snails. Forced to scavenge for scarce natural resources, the figures in this landscape are cut off from each other. Ms. Mattingly creates these scenes by first sewing costumes, designing machinery, and then posing the characters in each scene.The resulting photographs are tweaked digitally to create the final products on display. Through Saturday, February 25, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Ave., between 24th and 25th street, 212-989-7600, free.
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