Snap Shots February 2020

Rebecca Moses
February 1, 2020
Snap Shots

Edie Bresler is an artist whose practice combines the relational nature of photography with chance. Also in this issue of snap shots: The Polaroid Project from MIT, vernacular photography exhibits at the Davis Museum, and more.

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