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Indepth Arts News: "LAST CHANCE: Facts Showered with Light" 1999-05-02 until 2000-07-18 Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, CA, USA United States of America
Like the written word, the photograph fixes perfectly but translates poorly,
producing images altogether more luminous, more immense, more mesmerizing and
quixotic than what we might actually have seen or imagined. Within the frame of
the photograph all hierarchies are leveled, and a certain brutal and dear beauty
emerges.
This exhibition considers the camera's unique means of translating the everyday
world. The assembled images, all drawn from MoPA's permanent collection,
represent a broad cross-section of 20th century photography and experience.
Rather than a concise, linear history of the medium, this grouping presents areas
of the collection's strength, featuring social documentary photography and
portraiture in some depth. Among the photographers featured are Berenice
Abbott, Linda Connor, Roy DeCarava, Andreas Feininger, John Gutmann, Lewis
Hine, Pok Chi Lau, Duane Michals, Nicholas Nixon, Robert ParkeHarrison,
Alexander Rodchenko and Aaron Siskind.
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