Word: jeffryã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...misleading titles go, “Theatrical Photographs,” by Alix Jeffry, at the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery has succeeded in a misnomer. Many of the photographs, while delightful, have naught to do with the theatre; Jeffry??s real name was Evelyn Fish and the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is little more than the entrance to Pusey Library. That said, it is worth the trip to Harvard’s underground library to see these 70-odd black and white portraits on display...
...Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is dominated by two large oil portraits, one of Robert Gould Shaw by Edmund Charles Jarbell and one of Edward Brewster Sheldon by Paul Trabilcock. With two bare walls and the doorway flanked by commemorative oil colors, it is difficult to pay attention to Jeffry??s pictures, which with their near-uniform size and frank style, do not, for the most part, call out for attention...
...into this show, the exhibit is dominated by images from the late sixties and early seventies. Jeffry lived in New York throughout this time, until 1988 when she moved to Albuquerque, N.M. with her partner, Mary Alice Morris, who donated the photographs featured in this exhibition to Harvard after Jeffry??s death...
...Hopper, who looks out of the picture, taken on location in Peru, with a penetrating gaze. It is when the show strays from these easy shots that it falters. Jeffry had taken thousands of photographs of Edward Albee, many of which the Theatre Collection purchased along with other of Jeffry??s photographs in 1981—but only one from the more recent acquisition made it into the exhibition...
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