GoLocalProv | Exhibition Celebrates Photographer Mary Beth Meehan at WaterFire - Inside Art with Michael Rose
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Over the last year, the WaterFire Arts Center has become a premier setting for stunning exhibitions. The venue’s latest show celebrates the remarkable capacity of photography to celebrate everyday people and build community. On view through August 22, WaterFire is mounting an excellent survey of large-scale photographs by Providence artist Mary Beth Meehan. The exhibition, appropriately titled Eye to Eye, consists of sensitive and beautiful portraits capturing sitters drawn from regions throughout the United States. Although technology has rendered the world image-sodden, Meehan’s portraits are an antidote to the alienation common in today’s culture.
The famed French street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke of the importance of “the decisive moment” in making images. For Meehan, great photography can more readily be equated with the decisive individual. Regular people who will not find themselves on magazine covers or as models in advertising campaigns are Meehan’s subjects of choice. She elevates her sitters to the status of popular icons in form and treatment, signifying her care and respect for their diverse and unique experiences.
One method Meehan employs to highlight her models is the sheer size of her photographs, which are often printed as industrial banners and then adhered to buildings, pushing viewers to reassess their own connectedness. This hierarchy of scale accords the same level of importance to the individuals being photographed as to a billboard in Times Square.
N’oubliez pas : le premier livre de photographies de Mary beth Meehan a été publié en France chez C&F éditions.
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