Henry Wessel's Candid California Photos Underscore the Art of Noticing

Henry Wessel's Candid California Photos Underscore the Art of Noticing

“There is the world, and there is the photograph. The photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing,” Henry Wessel (1942-2018) said in a “TateShots” short on the occasion of Tate Modern’s display of his Incidents series in 2014. Today, an exhibition of more than 65 prints titled Henry Wessel — Photographs and Books opens at The Grolier Club, a historic society celebrating the world of books and the graphic arts. Wessel was a New…