Africa is an unstinting source of new photography, of which New York would see little on a regular basis were it not for a few commercial galleries and the Walther Collection. Last fall the Walther, a German foundation with a project space in Chelsea, initiated a series of three exhibitions under the umbrella title "Distance and Desire: Encounters With the African Archive," organized by the art historian Tamar Garb. The first show included European ethnographic photography. This one, "Contemporary Reconfigurations," sets out to illustrate how much a product of invention and fantasy ethnography can be (...)
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