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...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...
...ICA Cinema: 955 Boylston St., Boston, 266-5151. Living at Risk and Witness to War: 7 9; through Sunday...
...limited to instamatic shots of your family at your sister's graduation, you will appreciate how some photographers use large Polaroid negatives while others use infrared film; some use color, others black and white; some make huge life-size prints, others print images only inches long. At the ICA, there are photographs of familiar tourist spots and traditional portraits, ugly Indians and bizarre animals...
Several photographers created images from television pictures, though for different purposes, according to ICA Director David Ross. Linds White created a series of prints called Faces, video images reproduced on paper. The photos, by revealing the pixels which composed the image, showed the incongruity of the trust we put into television pictures, Ross explained...
...Baden took mundane television scenes (even a game show contestant) and collected them into groups of four. He has tried to unearth hidden suggestions contained in the pictures by putting them next to others. By no means is it Baden's photographic skill that is on display at the ICA: it is his artistic eye that hangs in the gallery. And it is the way he exhibits that talent, using the spacing of other people's images rather than his own photos, that makes him unique...