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...involved in numerous affairs, despite being confined to a wheelchair. The media had an unspoken agreement never to photograph the presidentis legs while in coitus...
...Photographer David Hilliard, who taught a VES photograph class at Harvard this fall, talked about his new work now showing at Bernard Toale...
...Denise Marika's work, one of the only examples of photography in Visual Memoirs, highlights this absence from the survey. "Battle Photo Series (I-VII)," 1994-95, is composed of seven separate units arranged side-by-side, each a six-foot-tall strip of a photograph encased in steel channels. The once whole image becomes disembodied arms and legs. Because the continuity of the photo is broken up into segments, the original configuration of limbs is illegible. Are the intertwined bodies screwing or fighting? The frames of steel enclose and restrain the photograph's action, while the progression from...
...Manhattan. The faces and figures of some are blurred, evidence of the close proximity in which Shahn uses his camera. Yet, we see that Shahn's photography employs method in its apparent randomness--there is one man that draws our attention. This man is in the center of the photograph and in focus, and we see that he seems to be deep in thought, with a slight frown on his face...
...Taking a picture is the ability to transfer the physical reality onto film. Making a picture is imbuing that photograph with meaning and purpose. Making a picture is creating the individual in the photograph, so that the viewer is led to question, understand and empathize. Shahn's making of New York City during the Great Depression is a historical documentation of not only the physical realities, but also the realities of the soul of humanity. His works highlight the ordinary in a time of extraordinary loss, despair and, dare we say, hope...