About

Gil Blank is a photographer and writer on the social, political, and historical contexts of photographic practices.

His photographs have been exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center and White Columns, New York; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; CB Roppongi, Tokyo; and Ville D’Images, Vevey, Switzerland. Active in publishing, he has served in various editorial capacities for Art On Paper, Issue, and Whitewall, and was a founding editor of Influence, an independently published magazine devoted to contemporary imagemaking. His writing also regularly appears in monographs, including Freischwimmer, by Wolfgang Tillmans (Tokyo Opera City, 2005), and White Planet, Black Heart, by Torbjørn Rødland (Steidl, 2006), as well as in surveys, such as In Numbers: Serial Artist Editions, 1955–2008 (JRP/Ringier and PPP Editions, 2009), Words Without Pictures (Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Aperture, 2010) and Becoming Disfarmer (Neuberger Museum of Art, 2014).

Cold Spring, a book of his photographs, is forthcoming from Mack Books.