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Visual Arts/Film Review: “Elliott Erwitt — Silence Sounds Good” — Far From Dull

Aside from making generalities about “making good photographs” and “earning a living,” celebrated photographer Elliott Erwitt steadfastly refuses to be drawn out.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Cargo Film, Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt -- Silence Sounds Good, Magnum, Photography

Film Review: “Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” — Naughty or Nice?

In this documentary, the photographer and his art are not so much defended as explained through the voices of the world’s top models and movie icons with whom he worked.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Gero von Boehm, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautifu, Photography

Visual Arts Review: “Landmarks” at Williams College Museum of Art — Losing Your Way

The Ruskinian mantra of “truth to nature” was eventually upended by the development of digital imagery and the agile manipulations of Photoshop.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Uncategorized, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Horace Ballard, Landmarks, Photography, Williams College Museum of Art

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Clifford Ross at MASS MoCA — Reinventing the Sublime

The artist knows that beauty, and even the sublime, on their own terms are not enough to cut it in the competitive field of contemporary art.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Clifford Ross, Landscape Seen & Imagined, MASS MoCA, Photography

Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions

Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Kathleen C. Stone, Photography, Portland Museum of Art, Rose Marasco, Rose Marasco: index

Visual Arts Review: Photographer Gordon Parks — Return to Fort Scott

Back To Fort Scott, a compact, affecting exhibition of meticulously printed black and white photographs, is like a grainy, retro speed bump between the museum’s adjacent galleries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Back to Fort Scott, Boston, Gordon Parks, Jr, Museum of Fine Arts, Paul A. Tamburello, Photography

Visual Arts Review: Duane Michals — Photography as Amazement

The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Diane Michals, Peabody Essex, Photography

Visual Arts Review: “The Dying of the Light” — An Elegy for the Beauty of Celluloid

This engaging exhibition features the work of 6 artists who meditate on the demise of the analog film image, exploring celluloid’s “particular visual, material, aural, and even metaphoric characteristics.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Anthony Merino, Film, Film as Medium and Metaphor, Lisa Oppenheim, Matthew Buckingham, Photography, Rodney Graham, Rosa Barba, Simon Starling, Susan Cross, Tacita Dean, The Dying of the Light

Visual Arts Review: At the MFA — Bruce Davidson’s Dramatic Vision of ’60s Harlem

Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.

By: Holly Bieler Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: African-American, Bruce Davidson, Harlem, Museum of Fine Arts, Photography

Film Review: Bert Stern — Original Madman

What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bert Stern: Original Madman, documentary, Photography

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