Author: David F. Brown

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“WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY” at the MFAH: All But Death, can be Adjusted…

Draped in camouflage, bunting, or shroud, war’s singular product is death. In face after face of WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, nothing is more abundantly clear than the awful intimacy of war and death. The exhibition begs the question, is our greatest modern efficiency murder? [...]

W. Eugene Smith, American (1918–1978), Dying Infant Found by American "Soldiers in Saipan, June 1944," gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Will Michels in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker. © Estate of W. Eugene Smith / Black Star