Past
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Bruce Davidson: Time of Change
November 16, 2002 – January 25, 2003 In 1961, Bruce Davidson traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to photograph the Freedom Riders. His experience there was the beginning of a five year entanglement with the Civil Rights Movement. Davidson's photographs, however, are not tributes to inviolate righteousness: they are a frank depiction of a tumultuous and disparate society whose future and whose character were still far from certain. Read more -
Manuel Álvarez Bravo: at one hundred
January 9 – April 6, 2002 Bravo's photographs are not surreal: they do not rely on the disjunction of image or subject for their provocation; rather they are a natural, elegant confluence of personal symbols and cultural perspicacity arranged under his intuitive skill and inimitable aesthetic. Thus enfolded within his self-described and perfectly realized "fantasy" rather than a specific location or time, Bravo's images today retain the expressive wit with which they were first imbued. Read more
