frieze #263

The November/December issue of frieze magazine marks photography’s bicentennial with a roundtable discussion on the enduring power, and challenges, of the medium. Plus, Susana Plotts-Pineda speaks with Doris Salcedo, as the artist’s major new exhibition opens at White Cube, New York.

Roundtable: Picture Perfect

‘We should be careful what we wish for when we worry about the lack of acceptance for photography in the art world.’ Nadine Henrich, Taous Dahmani, David Campany and Hoda Ashfar consider the shapeshifting medium’s singular place in visual culture.

Interview: Doris Salcedo

‘One way of operating within the art world is to break away from indifference.’ Doris Salcedo on her devotion to preserving memory and pinpointing beauty in sites of destruction.

Also featuring

In the features, Laura McLean-Ferris profiles filmmaker Diane Severin Nguyen ahead of her show at Haus der Kunst Munchen. From Instagram Stories-as-script to a central voice becoming a chorus, the internet’s historian Mindy Seu traces her fascination with reworking the lecture through performance in ‘1,500 Words’. And, following a slate of recent novels about artists, a thematic essay by Lou Stoppard imagines an exhibition adorned with fictional artworks.

Columns: Otherworldly