Episode No. 700 (!) of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Tarrah Krajnak and author Jennifer Raab.

Krajnak is featured in two exhibitions on opposite sides of the United States. At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Krajnak is featured in “Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography” through July 13. The exhibition was curated by Shana Lopes, Erin O’Toole, and Delphine Sims, with Sally Katz and Alex Landry. At the International Center of Photography, New York, Kraynak’s work is included in “To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography.” Organized by Sara Ickow, Keisha Scarville, and Elisabeth Sherman, the exhibition presents the ways in which seven photographers are reimagining what an archive can be, or might look like.

A third US exhibition of Krajnak’s work opens April 16 at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. It will be curated by Georgia Erger.

Krajnak works between photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak, who was born in Peru to an Indigenous mother and who was raised by a transracial US family, often interrogates photography standards and finds that they have limited women, and furthered the violent loss of Native land, lives, and rights. She has won most major photography prizes; her work is in the collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

Series of Krajnak’s work discussed on the program include:

• Master Rituals I: Ansel Adams, 2018-present;
• Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes, 2020;
• Forestpath, 2021-present;
• Erasing Moonrise, 2023.

Raab is the author of “Relics of War: The History of a Photograph” from Princeton University Press. It examines a photograph made by Clara Barton and published by Matthew Brady that features relics from the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. “Relics of War” traces how the photograph was a central part of Barton’s work of addressing mass death and related grief. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $42-59.

Instagram: Tarrah Krajnak, Tyler Green.

Air date: April 3, 2025.