If you dont know this already, I'm a lover of photography. I didn't know much about this exhibition but when I saw some of the images, it gave me a reason to try to atleast make another visit to New York before June.

Take a look

http://www.ashesandsnow.com/index2.html

WOWOWWOWOW those pictures are amazing!! especially the one with the girl in a hall with the eagle flying in front of her! Wow.. amazing.

i think there were less than 2 or 3 i wasn't MAJORLY impressed with. So you can tell how unbelievable i found these right now.

Went to the site. These look like British Colonial POstcards from the early 1900's. I dunno, I have to check them out and I'll do it knowing me, but I have some hesitation. Depends on what his artist statement and the curation around it is. Otherwise it reeks of Rudyard Kipling.

Wow the one with the kid and the eagle behind him is amazing as well.

its a dude who went around for 2 years just taking pictures.

when it comes to photography, i barely ever care about what the person's intentions were, though if i know, it allows me to see them in another light as well. I just really appreciate photography and enjoy seeing things the way i want them to really .. it could be my 4 year old nephew just taking random pics but sometimes, he'll end up pressing the button at a time when the picture would be fantastic in how i see it.

I know, but he could have taken pictures of animals and people in Boston Public Garden too. This just has a heavy hand in Orientalism when you consider where he consciously chose to go to ahead of time to procur these images.

hehe, sorry, this is kind of my life. I like the images, I've just been spending too much time in Art Hist and jobs. I'm always going to have a love hate relationship with artwork. I love it on a visceral level, like you bABA, where when something appeals to me it just.....does. No questions asks as far as if I think they are appealing or not. But then I have to sit down and write papers about it, heh, and then its not longer just how I feel looking at it, its a paper. Still its very interesting to me as far as his anthropological (mis)intent. I go to these things for many different reasons, it keeps art work hollistic and interesting to me. So how'd you find out about this photographer?

have I just killed this thread?

Wait...some of those don't look like real pictures...