This week's exhibition previews | Art and design | The Guardian:
Where Three Dreams Cross, London
"Culled from 150 years of photography, this show is nothing less than panoramic. It charts India, Bangladesh and Pakistan's differing paths to modernity through five themes: family, portraiture, performance, politics and the streets. Political and cultural icons such as Gandhi and Satyajit Ray are naturally present. Meanwhile, generic images of monsoon rains and street life are tempered with alternative, personal histories of culture's ebb and flow. In portraits from the 60s, a sari-clad woman poses as a Hollywood heroine, while the dark side of the western hippy invasion is embodied by a washed-out junkie. Alongside creeping change is momentous upheaval like 1971's Indo-Pakistani war, its brutalities recorded in disturbing reportage. Compelling present-day images pit a static rural existence against the world of urban sex workers, climate refugees and those entering the technologically super-charged future.
Whitechapel Gallery, E1, Thu to 11 Apr
Skye Sherwin"
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
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