Side Lines

Here's something new: an entry about a photograph that you could actually buy and own.

Roger Ballen, "Place of the Upside Down," 2004.

Gallerist Jen Bekman's project, 20×200, offers a weekly artwork for sale in a limited edition for a minimal price (usually 200 works for $20 each). This was last week's image, but I love it. Roger Ballen is a contemporary photographer who draws on photography's realism to disorient us. Here, he plays with the line, typically a unit of drawing. From bottom to...