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Photographer David Hilliard, who taught a VES photograph class at Harvard this fall, talked about his new work now showing at Bernard Toale...
...David Hilliard: For me, it's important that all the people in these photographs I know, they're places I'm familiar with. I think that I do my best work when it's personal, but it's not important for you the viewer to know that. It doesn't need to be my grandmother. But the fact is, you have an elderly woman building a card house, which for me is the ultimate sign of optimism and perseverance, and yet at the same time it represents fragility because there's a gust of the wind and the card house...
...David Hilliard: Photographs of Endurance is on display at the Bernard Toale Gallery through Feb. 26. The gallery is at 450 Harrison Ave. and the easiest way to get there is to take the Red Line to Broadway, cross the bridge in front of you when you leave the station, and then take a left onto Harrison. It's open Tue. through...
...after seeing David Hilliard's work, I've begun to change my mind. His photos are not stolen moments or peeks into busy lives. Instead, they create a relationship between the subject and the viewer. Rather than passively revealing a person's truth, Hilliard and his subject are actively telling the viewer something...
...work began when Hilliard read The Endurance by Caroline Alexander. This history book tells the story of the failure of an Antarctic expedition, and how the crew managed the amazing feat of survival. The title of each photo is a line from a journal of one of the survivors: "All the Day Dreams Must Go" and "What the Ice gets, the Ice keeps...