Past
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Graciela Iturbide: Pájaros
March 29 – May 10, 2003 The birds are Graciela's birds and the territory they describe are a microcosm of the topology she has long-since hewn with her distinguishing eye. Read more -
Susan Meiselas: Carnival Strippers
January 17 – March 6, 2003 In the early 1970s, Susan Meiselas frequented small town New England carnivals, documenting the affiliated strip shows, their performers, employees and customers. The advancing women's movement of the era is the most obvious frame through which to regard Meiselas' consideration of this inflammatory subject. Meiselas' photographs share with the work of her contemporaries an ambiguity which is born not of descriptive inadequacy, but a thorough and uncompromising fidelity to her subject. Meiselas makes no reductions for the sake of indulgence or symbolic simplicity. The dramatis personae of Poverty, Oppression and Dignity are nowhere in evidence within Meiselas' bizarre microcosm. Read more -
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
