Galleries: Infusing useful objects with unexpected identities

Some of these photographs are powerful, others slight, and the resolution of images is frequently too low. It's an exhibition of possibilities and open-endedness, not of connoisseurship, and doesn't pretend otherwise. A highlight of the show in its Haverford iteration is photographer and Haverford College photography professor William Earle Williams' essay on the history of the snapshot and his display of early Eastman Kodak Brownie cameras, the groundbreaking single-lens Polaroid SX70 introduced in 1972 (used by snapshot enthusiast Walker Evans among others), and first-edition books on the history of photography.

Pencil to paper

Though abstract, Smith's obsessive drawings can resemble scallop shells, parts of the human body covered with hair, cross-sections of tree trunks, and other natural patterns. They're as labor-intensive and meditative as Tibetan sand painting, but also full of dark humor.

Sheinkman's erasure drawings are simpler than the works of his last show here. Images that used to suggest curls of smoke stolen from film-noir close-ups have given way to looping, less-referential forms. Curiously, they're more mysterious than ever.