dimarts, de febrer 21, 2006
I went to the museum.
I had the day off thanks to the holiday. I intended to head over to the Cincinnati Art Museum to see some prints by Rembrandt that are on exhibit. Fortunately they are closed on Mondays and I was forced to switch my plans. I decided instead to venture over to the Contemporary Art Center in downtown. There were a few different exhibits going on at once and for the most part all were interesting and enjoyable.
The most compelling exhibit on hand was one by a photographer named Taryn Simon. The pictures in this post are her exhibition, named “The Innocents,” which examines the lives of men who had been wrongfully convicted, imprisoned, and subsequently freed from death row. You would imagine that what her subjects endured has to be one of the most extreme forms of suffering, as it is undeserved. One look at them in her photographs, which show the men at either their place of alibi or the scene of the crime (they did not commit), and the pain these men went through is incredibly obvious.
The exhibit gave me a weird feeling. At first I felt sympathy then even frustration for them, but in the end I went away with a huge sense of despair as I realized there was nothing anyone could do to help these men out. Their lives are permanently scarred, as much in the present and future as it was in the past. A video documenting interviews with many of the men she photographed was the most moving thing I have seen in a very long time. It is impossible to hear how their lives were torn apart by being wrongfully accused. Especially when a few of them talk about how much they wish their mother had lived to see them exonerated.
Some of these men spent over 15 years on death row. Every one of them lives with the fear that the authorities are right around the corner waiting to set them up once again. One describes how every time he spits on the sidewalk he thinks about how the cops might pick it up and put it in a crime scene. Another explains how he avoids any situation that leaves him alone with a woman, fearing that a rape charge will soon come.
Sadly only the book is being sold and not the video. You can read more about Ms. Simon’s work at http://www.tarynsimon.com/.
I posted some of the pictures I took of the other exhibits on my picture blog - www.cincypics.blogspot.com.
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The most compelling exhibit on hand was one by a photographer named Taryn Simon. The pictures in this post are her exhibition, named “The Innocents,” which examines the lives of men who had been wrongfully convicted, imprisoned, and subsequently freed from death row. You would imagine that what her subjects endured has to be one of the most extreme forms of suffering, as it is undeserved. One look at them in her photographs, which show the men at either their place of alibi or the scene of the crime (they did not commit), and the pain these men went through is incredibly obvious.The exhibit gave me a weird feeling. At first I felt sympathy then even frustration for them, but in the end I went away with a huge sense of despair as I realized there was nothing anyone could do to help these men out. Their lives are permanently scarred, as much in the present and future as it was in the past. A video documenting interviews with many of the men she photographed was the most moving thing I have seen in a very long time. It is impossible to hear how their lives were torn apart by being wrongfully accused. Especially when a few of them talk about how much they wish their mother had lived to see them exonerated.Some of these men spent over 15 years on death row. Every one of them lives with the fear that the authorities are right around the corner waiting to set them up once again. One describes how every time he spits on the sidewalk he thinks about how the cops might pick it up and put it in a crime scene. Another explains how he avoids any situation that leaves him alone with a woman, fearing that a rape charge will soon come.Sadly only the book is being sold and not the video. You can read more about Ms. Simon’s work at http://www.tarynsimon.com/.
I posted some of the pictures I took of the other exhibits on my picture blog - www.cincypics.blogspot.com.
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