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FLASH POINTS: A FOCUS ON GLOBAL TRAUMA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES PERESS AND CANDACE SCHARSU
SIDNEY MISHKIN GALLERY, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK CITY
NOVEMBER 15-DECEMBER 12, 2006
December 2006 saw Hollywood promoting, with much fanfare, the release of its latest heroic epic, Blood Diamond, in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the lovable mercenary chasing wealth in the midst of Sierra Leone's atrocious civil war. Meanwhile, a much more sobering look at this and other tragedies in Africa and around the world could be witnessed at the photography exhibition, "Flash Points: A Focus on Global Trauma: Photographs by Gilles Peress and Candace Scharsu," at Baruch College of the City University of New York. The exhibition presented two contrasting visual accounts of human suffering. On the one hand, it featured...
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