Death Is Black and White: Selections of Photography and Video

From the Straus Family Collection

Exhibition Website

Oct 13 2018 - Jan 20 2019

Hudson Valley MOCA

Peekskill, NY

Acknowledging the fragility and mortality of the human condition, Death Is Black and White confronts death in an unflinching and unmistakable way. These largely monochromatic photography and video works come together as a direct juxtaposition to and in conversation with Death Is Irrelevant, which is wholly sculptural, often garish, and largely tackles the subject matter obliquely

These pieces do not sidestep mortality and death. They do not jest or make light of it. They are at once unflinching, terrifying, and heartbreakingly beautiful.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.          

  • Various Media
  • International
  • Dieter Appelt
  • Mark Berghash
  • Gilles Berquet
  • Larry Clark
  • Ion Grigorescu
  • Lyle Ashton Harris
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Maria Marshall
  • and others

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