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...light make them a refreshing change from the generally overstated photographs of today’s books and newspapers.“Copperheads,” a series of 100 photographs in a 10 by 10 grid, is perhaps the most striking work in the exhibition. The exhibit??s curatorial notes suggest that these images are “like poisonous landscapes, aerial views of step mines, or shots of the surface of the moon.” From a distance, they do look like photographs of scrap metal or close-ups of aging ruins. In fact, each...
...military experiences.One photograph, for example, features Israeli soldiers with the corpses of Palestinian militants after they had been killed by the IDF. The accompanying description explains that the photographs are self-documented “victory souvenirs” of the soldier’s military service.According to the exhibit??s Web site, the photographs are merely intended to show soldiers’ experiences and not to espouse political ideology.The discussion surrounding the exhibit not only sheds light on the full spectrum of military service in the occupied territories, but hints at the underlying dialogue facing the Israeli...
...authorship—is the exhibition a group show, the brochure asks, or a solo show?—are less interesting than the way that this collection of entangled objects evoke a city, an era, a style, an individual. The grid doesn’t end at the exhibit??s door, and Balteo Yazbeck’s entanglements even become visible outside the walls of the intimate museum.—Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
...side with an intricately assembled digital montage in “Focus on South Asian Photography: Recent Works,” on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until May 6. Such juxtapositions are common throughout the showcase. But although its attempt to illustrate diversity is commendable, the exhibit??s scope is ultimately too large for the allotted number of works, forming a disjointed sampling—rather than a comprehensive collection—of photographs. DECEPTIVELY SMALL Curated by Kimberly Masteller, assistant curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, the exhibition presents different styles of photography...
...Boym adds, “I work with technology, sometimes in a violating way. I wanted to misuse it, to use it creatively. I find that it’s enabling.” These ideas of error, accident, and broken-tech art are pervasive throughout the exhibit??s works. A projection loops a 16-second multiburst image of moving water, while distorted pictures of cities are suspended from the ceiling and the walls. “I’m working through errors, interruptions,” she says. “I like the idea...