SF Camerawork Exhibition:
Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women
"A 1940s Hollywood glamour girl wannabe in Egypt throws a practiced ‘come hither’ look over her bare shoulder at the camera. A serious young Lebanese woman poses for a portrait dressed like an English gentleman in a pinstriped suit. The Arab pop music equivalent of Charo wears a traditional headscarf with a wry expression. These images and more gleaned from the archive of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut are the subject of a fascinating new multimedia installation entitled "Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women" on view at SF Camerawork. Using a soundscape of recorded voices, projected large-scale images and photographic prints, the installation unveils stereotypes and examines how the authority of photography can get lost in translation. This is the only U.S. venue for this thought-provoking show curated by art historian and critical theorist Dore Bowen and French media artist Isabelle Massu."
Through May 26 , 2007
[image from SF Camerawork Web site]
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