Word: photographs
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...Hilliard’s photographs include multiple panels. This technique adds significant depth to each piece. On the Bernard Toale Gallery website, Hilliard explains, “This sequencing of photographs and shifting of focal planes allows me the luxury of guiding the viewer across the photograph, directing their eye; an effect I could never achieve through a single image...
...three-panel photograph entitled “Stella Searching” shows an elderly woman, rake in hand, staring upward while standing in a neat and orderly lawn. The middle panel pictures a single old and brittle leaf attached to a branch. The top panel depicts a gray storm cloud with a bit of sun peeking from behind it. The orderliness of the lawn suggests that Stella, the old woman, is attempting to control her life. Stella stares at the lone leaf, which represents her fate, in a vain attempt to master it. Its lengthy distance from Stella may point...
...largest photograph, “A to Z of Taxonomy,” is seven panels long and the most ambiguous piece in the collection. Six of the panels are radiant and colorful photos of silk flowers in a shop, each of which is strong enough to stand alone. The seventh panel shows two women closely analyzing the flowers. These women are ordering the flowers, so the photo can be seen as a metaphor for the human attempt to order life. There are so many flowers, each precious and beautiful, that ordering them seems an impossible task. Is Hilliard sending...
...Airstrikes Resume.” It was the kind of headline one might expect as we concluded a second day of bombing against Afghanistan. But instead of showing a picture of a U.S. fighter ascending from an aircraft carrier or the lit-up nighttime sky of Afghanistan, the accompanying photograph showed a rescue worker peering into the abyss of the site of the World Trade Center. The glaring contrast between the headline and picture created a chilling message: “Yes, we too are now perpetrators of violence, but remember why we must do it! Don?...
...Saturday, a British newspaper released an Associated Press photograph of an armaments specialist securing a bomb to an American attack aircraft. As is routine on much ordinance dropped on enemies, there was a message scrawled on the bomb, one which a soldier intended to deliver to the Taliban. The message was this...