![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](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117042040im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Smith-Dying-Infant-150x150.jpg)
“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? [...]
![MFAH-curated War Photo Show to Travel to LA, DC, NY](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117042040im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/war-photo-150x150.png)
MFAH-curated War Photo Show to Travel to LA, DC, NY
War/Photography: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath the much anticipated mega-show that is scheduled to open next November (2012) in Houston, has announced a touring itinerary, making it one of the very few shows to originate here, rather than just passing through. Organized by a curatorial team consisting of Anne Wilkes Tucker, Gus and [...]
![Rania Matar Barbie Girl, Beirut 2006. Haret Hreik Beirut. The photographer arrived in Beirut to visit family days before the bombing of Lebanon by Israel started in 2006. Courtesy Rania Matar](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117042040im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/XXI4-150x150.jpg)
XXI: Conflicts in a New Century: Images of a First Decade Fraught with Violence
The other day I heard a montage of sound bites on NPR of the recent uprisings in the Middle East. The momentary inundation of frantic sounds from Libya, Syria, Egypt and all those other conflicted places, and the journalists voices that steadily and resolutely fed the world the information coming out of them, suddenly made me keenly aware [...]