The New York Times’ Benjamin Genocchio reviews “Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography,” an exhibition at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, featuring photography by DUCIS Artist in Residence, Wendy Ewald and Globalization and the Artist participant Alfredo Jaar, amongst others.
Ms. Ewald spent 18 months interviewing children in Margate, taking their photographs and teaching them to use a camera. Showing here are installation shots of her photographs of the children, displayed as public banners around the streets of Margate, along with the project’s 2006 book, “Towards a Promised Land.” There is also an audiotape including snippets of the children’s personal accounts of their experiences. It is quite moving.
Read “Not Quite Documentary Art” New York Times – Arts – October 15, 2008.
