Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malaise that drifts like the coastal fog takes constantly changing forms. The population seems forever to be shifting fitfully, as if everyone is looking for a better motel. Some 500 people a day move out of the state altogether. Among the seekers who stay are a large number of the troubled souls, mainly young and middleaged, who join encounter groups, which proliferate in California like steelhead and artichokes and the wines that go with them...
...Fog Art Museum through December...
...Fog apparently chose Shahn for his nostalgic notes on America as well as his artistic excellence for this exhibition of photographs, their first to be presented in a long time. In spite of Shahn's intention merely to record his era, several of these documentary prints transcend this critical end and exemplify the best of his artistic vision...
...skeptical attitude toward the documentary affects the way we approach the exhibition of Ben Shahn photographs currently at the Fog Museum. Labels reading " Destitute Ozark Residents" underneath a group of these pictures may offend the contemporary social conscience, acquainted with the pathos of poverty. Shahn, one of the first to make this kind of photograph, tried to awaken a complacent audience to the horrors of the thirties...
...this exhibition at the Fog, the first major presentation of his photography, some of Shahn's pictures of unemployed workers in the Midwest describe more than just the individual's painful condition. A mother clasps her arms around her child and its doll, locking her dirty fingers together. The open neck of her frayed dress uncovers the bones of her chest. She speaks with a half smile, while her child's porcelain cheeks and fixed, black eyes make him more doll-like than...