A dual exhibition relating to current world events – “Pilgrimage & Clips”
– in the Arts
Atrium Gallery has been extended through April 25.
“Pilgrimage” is a series of photographs of visitors to
the World Trade Center site by Kevin Bubriski, a
Vermont-based photographer who has received Guggenheim and
Fulbright fellowships as well as a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Some of this series was published in a
recent special edition of DoubleTake magazine.
In that issue of DoubleTake Bubriski wrote:
“I made two pilgrimages from my home in Vermont to
the World Trade Center site. I felt the need to try to witness
and understand the impact of the New York City tragedy through
my camera … I found people experiencing a profound sense
of community, but also the deepest kind of personal reflection on
loss and mortality … each visitor's quiet moment of reflection
began as he or she stared off at the cascading awful ruin of
twisted steel and swirl of acidic smoke. In this silence, most visitors
appeared to finally grasp the horror of the images on television and
in magazines and newspapers.”
“Clips,” curated by Martin Benjamin, professor of
photography, features a selection of news clips pertaining to
photography coverage of recent world events from sources such as the
New York Times, New Yorker and Life.
For more information, call ext. 6714.