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Such unwavering optimism has been the hallmark of Bush’s outlook on the crisis, and that is why he has been so successful at rallying public support. The American people naturally want their leaders to exhibit a spirit of hopeful resilience. This was the secret to Ronald W. Reagan’s superior oratory skills; rather than emphasizing the gravity of a problem, Reagan focused on the righteousness and certainty of the solution. At the 1992 Republican National Convention, he intimated, “...whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone...
...exhibit combines the work of American photographers Hellen Levit, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, Lee Friedlander, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand, as well as Hungarian photographer Brassai, that, taken together, visually chronicle a developing American sense of self from the 1930's to the late...
...exhibit is divided thematically into two sections-"Social Space" and "Character Studies," each of which occupy one room of the main floor of the ICA. With a few exceptions, both sections include photographs from each of the photographers mentioned above. "Social Space" deals visually with environment. It analyzes the American milieu at any given time, especially in terms of dimension, geometry, orientation and the arrangement of things as they occupy their space. More importantly, it deals with the responses to and negotiations of that atmosphere by the people who live...
...remarkable facets of this exhibit is that these photographs are almost entirely African; they are portraits of Africans, by Africans, produced for an African audience. (Although the photographs have been enlarged for international exhibition, they remain inherently African.) The resulting gazes are by turn strikingly honest, proud, playful and ironic...
While this exhibit does a laudable job in presenting work from African artists, at the end of the exhibit one is still left with a feeling that more is possible. While Keïta and Sidibé’s works are thought-provoking and visually stimulating, they remain the professional portraits of commercial photographers. The question that one is left with is whether there are any artists in Africa that work for purely creative reasons...