The Chosen Ones at the Parrish Art Museum

Mr. Haynes shares a good-size diptych that is photographic in its execution. One subject, who stands in the ocean in shallow water, may be taking a photo of the other with her phone. Yet each panel can stand alone, even as they are joined visually by the pattern of the water. As matter-of-fact as they look on the surface, the panels demand more than a cursory viewing.

The Parrish video of the curators’ visits to the chosen artists’ studios brought out a key contrast in both painters’ work when it came to photography. Mr. Haynes said in his interview that he preferred working from real life to photography, because of its inability to capture color and shadows accurately…