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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
GERMAN INDIANS AND BAVARIAN BY LAW
August 31 - October 25, 1998
Contact Sheet 98
Photographs by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher present
us with deceptively straight forward depictions of seemingly
familiar places and events. However, in each case our
assumptions are thrown askew when the context underlying
each image is revealed to be something quite different.
Robbins and Becher are a married couple who work collaboratively
using photography as a means to document what they refer
to as the transportation of place. In elaborating this
idea the artists wrote, "Notions of place have
become intensely confused due to overlapping eras of
slavery, colonialism, holocausts, immigration, tourism,
and mass-communications. We focus on particular examples
of such confusions, always a place, event, or artifact
on display for the public."
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