| All photographs are constructed images. They are not unbiased transcriptions
of reality but are manipulated both by technique and by the context in which
they are viewed. This concept is particularly relevant to pictures of war. Two
photographs made thirty years apart and for different reasons, one by Soviet
documentarian Yevgeny Khaldei and the other by American artist David Levinthal,
speak eloquently to these issues. . . .
- Stuart Alexander, Independent Curator and Scholar |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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