Photography: A Focus on the Figure
The Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College will present the exhibition, Photography: A Focus on the Figure, from Wednesday, November 22 to Friday December 15, 2017. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, November 21, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
From images celebrating our individual or collective identity to narratives of war and displacement, photography jolts our imagination and our world view. The power of photography includes its ability to function as a visual narrative that can document social, cultural, and historical events, and also to retain the impact of its 鈥渕essage鈥� for generations. Gilles Peress鈥檚 photographs, including his Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention in Benaco, Tanzania in 1994, document war and trauma around the world. Peress鈥檚 images not only provide historical records, but they also provide a lasting emotional impact. In a 1997 interview, Gilles Peress talked about the purpose of his work: 鈥淚鈥檓 gathering evidence for history, so that we remember.鈥� In addition, Peress鈥檚 photographs also fight false accounts or 鈥渇ake news鈥� by providing photographs of actual 鈥� and sometimes dangerous 鈥� events. Women dominate as subjects in many of the images, especially in the case of the works of female photographers such as Fran Antmann鈥檚 Funeral Procession, San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala and Candace Scharsu鈥檚 Female child soldier branded by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.
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The Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College will present the exhibition, Photography: A Focus on the Figure, from Wednesday, November 22 to Friday December 15, 2017. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, November 21, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
From images celebrating our individual or collective identity to narratives of war and displacement, photography jolts our imagination and our world view. The power of photography includes its ability to function as a visual narrative that can document social, cultural, and historical events, and also to retain the impact of its 鈥渕essage鈥� for generations. Gilles Peress鈥檚 photographs, including his Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention in Benaco, Tanzania in 1994, document war and trauma around the world. Peress鈥檚 images not only provide historical records, but they also provide a lasting emotional impact. In a 1997 interview, Gilles Peress talked about the purpose of his work: 鈥淚鈥檓 gathering evidence for history, so that we remember.鈥� In addition, Peress鈥檚 photographs also fight false accounts or 鈥渇ake news鈥� by providing photographs of actual 鈥� and sometimes dangerous 鈥� events. Women dominate as subjects in many of the images, especially in the case of the works of female photographers such as Fran Antmann鈥檚 Funeral Procession, San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala and Candace Scharsu鈥檚 Female child soldier branded by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.
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