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For thirty years, Wendy Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring
the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained
and evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative
concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography
and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for
the artistic process, Ewald has worked in communities in Labrador, Appalachia,
Colombia, India, South Africa, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Mexico, and
North Carolina. This retrospective exhibition, organized by the Addison
Gallery of American Art and the Fotomuseum, Winterthur, featured approximately
two hundred photographs representing 14 bodies of work made in collaboration
with children in many of those communities. Ewald was an artist in residence
at the Kemper Museum. |