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...work of Harrington and Hynes is marked by loneliness. Both give a sense that a landscape empty of people is empty of life, no matter the state of non-human life in the photograph. But the work of Laura E. Dichtel ’05 is far less desolate. Her landscapes, though aesthetically ordinary, are unique to the show in that they still hold hikers, both on the trail and posing, tangled up in trees, or else broad ideas, as in her cityscape of what seems to be downtown Boston, where a polished granite wall bears the inscription...
...beyond the suggestion of a nursing home in the background might have helped to narrow down these emotional options; however, the inability to categorize the man’s expression so quickly prevents the viewer from dismissing the man himself as a kind of archetype. The sensibility of this photograph reveals a depth and potential to Dichtel’s composition beyond much of the other work displayed, including her own other pictures...
Despite the dialogue in Price’s photograph, it is Meghan M. Brown ’05 who shows perhaps the most potential of all the exhibited artists. Her subway scenes of a young family and a T-musician are well-composed shots of unexciting subjects. The quality of her self-portrait, however, suggests that she may have the vision to tap into her visual arrangement skills and arrive at terrific...
...pictures. The title, "De qui s'agit-il?" (Who is he really?), is a play on one of Cartier-Bresson's signature catchphrases, De quoi s'agit-il?, or What's it all about? "I didn't want the show to be just a collection of Henri's best photographs," says curator Robert Delpire, founding director of the Centre National de la Photographie and a close friend who has worked with Cartier-Bresson since 1952. "I wanted to try to explain the man behind the myth, and how he became who he is, to show the exceptional coherence of everything...
...curtains and bedspread are the same shade of deep blue, a lava lamp sits on a table and a photograph of his daughter at age one hangs over...