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They say you can tell a lot about a person by what they like. But Yossi Milo’s taste is not so easily defined. If you had to describe it, you might say the 38-year-old Israeli-born photography dealer—whom most observers agree has his finger on the pulse of a new breed of contemporary photographers—favors work that’s a bit mysterious, work that keeps something of itself in reserve.

The solo show of large-scale color prints by Martina Mullaney that kicks off Milo’s move in Chelsea to a ground-floor space on West 25th Street this month is a case in point. Mullaney, a Royal College of Art graduate, spent a year visiting hostels and shelters around England, Ireland, and Wales photographing the beds where indigent people had just spent the night. But rather than being simply documentary or diaristic, her prints are more about abstract notions of color and light: a few gentle ripples in a white sheet, a slight shift of color or a scuff on a wall. “I love the perfect composition, the perfect coloring and texture—they are like paintings, actually,” says Milo. “But most of all, I am intere

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