Living in Harlem from 1999-2002, Belgian-Moroccan photographerCharif Benhelima creates this personal and powerful document of Harlem,degraded and almost deserted, a landscape of spattered walls, shadowyfigures, dirty streets and battered buildings. Using Polaroid 600 film and camera(and occasionally a red filter), the photographer composes works that speak tothe continuing condition of African Americans in today's United States - yet alsouplift the viewer with their originality and almost prayerful spirituality. The titleof ...
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Living in Harlem from 1999-2002, Belgian-Moroccan photographerCharif Benhelima creates this personal and powerful document of Harlem,degraded and almost deserted, a landscape of spattered walls, shadowyfigures, dirty streets and battered buildings. Using Polaroid 600 film and camera(and occasionally a red filter), the photographer composes works that speak tothe continuing condition of African Americans in today's United States - yet alsouplift the viewer with their originality and almost prayerful spirituality. The titleof this exhibition catalog by the highly regarded Benhelima recalls the MetropolitanMuseum's overly rosy Harlem on my Mind show in 1967, but this body of workprovides a compelling counterpoint for the 21st century.
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