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...liked them was, he wrote, "regarded as an eccentric." By then the young anthropologist was seeing official attitudes to Aborigines up close on Cape York. In 1932 he photographed three Aboriginal men chained neck to neck, sentenced without trial by a mission superintendent to lifelong exile on Palm Island. The image, reproduced in Thomson, shows them beginning a 380-km walk with police riding behind them. As desolate as the image is, Thomson wrote, "it gives no idea of the misery of the scene...
...over full time to his art, he did it with a passion. He abandoned his job as a stockbroker and deposited his Danish wife Mette and their five children back in Copenhagen, never to see them again. Tahiti would break his heart, of course. What he knew of the island was built mostly out of visits to the Paris World's Fair and from the romantic fabrications of the novelist Pierre Loti. By the time Gauguin made the first of his two voyages, in 1891, the native culture he hoped to find had been dressed, churched and adulterated by colonial...
...were about rich people from Connecticut when I obviously, well…wasn’t one. It was a question I’d asked myself before. I’m obviously never going to marry someone named Reeves Callaway, let alone hold the ceremony on his private island. And I wouldn’t want...
This summer, Stopforth hopes to spend two weeks working on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held during his incarceration. Because his work is so tied to a specific place, Stopforth has found that his work is sometimes inaccessible. “It is often not that easy for Americans to reference. I am something of an outsider for art in America or art in Boston,” he says. “As an exile or an immigrant, that is something that one constantly has to work with...
...addition, the renovations will add a new island for entrees...