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Photos: Documenting the Global Recession at the Photographic Resource Center

"Crisis & Opportunity," now at the Photographic Resource Center through August 1, 2010.

By PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER | July 19, 2010

Photo: Khaled Hasan

Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession | Photographic Resource Center

New directions: Docu vs. deadpan at the PRC, and new painting at BU's 808. By Greg Cook.

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New directions
Listen carefully: is the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University throwing down the gauntlet? "I'm interested in bringing more documentary into the PRC," says Glenn Ruga, who became executive director in February.
Fall Art Preview: Heavy construction
Over the past decade, museum building has boomed across the region.
Taking a global view at Salt
In the 1930s, the New Deal-era Farm Security Administration compiled arguably the most influential photo dossier in American history, enlisting nationally prominent photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans to capture scenes of rural poverty during the Great Depression.
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New directions
Listen carefully: is the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University throwing down the gauntlet? "I'm interested in bringing more documentary into the PRC," says Glenn Ruga, who became executive director in February.
Fall Art Preview: Heavy construction
Over the past decade, museum building has boomed across the region.
Taking a global view at Salt
In the 1930s, the New Deal-era Farm Security Administration compiled arguably the most influential photo dossier in American history, enlisting nationally prominent photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans to capture scenes of rural poverty during the Great Depression.
Our digital landscape
The installation Children of Arcadia convinced me that the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival isn’t going to suck.
Works in progress
Back in October, Minnesota photographer Alec Soth spoke at MassArt. "Facebook: 15 billion uploaded photos," he said. "At its busiest, 550,000 images each second being uploaded. So I've been struggling with that. How do I function as a photographer in that environment?"
Photos: Exposures
A slideshow of photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
Digital language at the PRC
How important would you say Ansel Adams is to the modern trends of digital art? If your first inclination is to answer, "Not at all," you're probably right.
Tall stories
The Institute of Contemporary Art gets down and dirty this spring with Mexican artist Jerónimo López Ramírez, who's better known as DR. LAKRA — or, as they might say in his home of Oaxaca, "Dr. Delinquent."
Exposures
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.
Lost in translation
Spring can't come soon enough, since it'll be bringing with it some engaging museum shows in and around Boston.
Photos: 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition
Photos from the 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, on display until June 28, 2009
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