Friday, May 22, 2009

A Look at Life

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography
through October 11

"...a visual discourse on how key life events are celebrated and honored, and how pivotal life decisions are made by a number of different cultures. Each stage of life is depicted by simple everyday situations experienced in moments of joy and gratification as well as by poignant events of passage. The unfathomable scale of devastation inflicted upon humanity and our environment by both man-made and natural disasters also is intrinsic to this life story."

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[text and image from museum website. Caption: "Joe McNally (American, contemporary); "Bill Ryan, Mike Morrissey." 2001. Color Polaroid. Collection of the artist."]

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