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Review: David Taylor: Working the Line

The US-Mexico border is not exactly a welcoming place for documentary photographers. And yet, for the past seven years, David Taylor has been photographing across 690 miles of that politically rigid, and altogether socially porous, demarcation. In that time, he…

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Review: John Coplans: Hands

Those of us with our heads in the clouds of art theory sometimes forget that it’s enough to take pleasure in looking at photographs. I have to remind myself that the materiality of works of art can surpass the concepts…

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Review: Vivian Maier: A Woman’s Lens

At Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center through December 18, Vivian Maier: A Woman’s Lens may be the first exhibition of the elusive (some would say, reclusive) photographer’s work in the Greater Boston area, but it coincides with Self-Portraits…

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Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Olentoja

In retrospect, it seems only fitting that I should see Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s video installations at the Davis Museum. It’s been years since I last uttered the words “esse is percipi,”1 but those conversations (arguments, really) involving Bishop Berkeley…