Revisiting the film collaborations of John Berger and Michael Dibb upon the 50th anniversary of their landmark documentary series Ways of Seeing.
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The photography of Phil Bergerson observes Americana through a social realist lens, with stark poetry and sobriety.
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“It’s the eyes,” she said. “We enter into a relationship through the eyes. I have a relationship with this person, and she’s responding to me, and the person viewing the photograph has
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Artist and activist Elaine Brière’s credo is that “one of the most important functions photography has is recording history.”
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