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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, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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