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By The New York Times
Julie Blackmon’s work might immediately resonate as the images portray family life, chaotic and messy as we now more intimately know it to be. The other shows hew toward staged pieces. Cooper & Gorfer’s studio shots put a unique spin on displacement, situating female migrants, pictured like goddesses, into vaunted scenes of utopian privilege. Moving away from photographing celebrities, Martin Schoeller turns to intimate video portraits that spotlight people we often ignore: ex-inmates, or, more precisely, those once wrongly sentenced to death. Naima Green upends the traditional notion of portraiture and who it’s meant to serve with images of the L.G.B.T.Q. community — a strategy Andy Warhol daringly employed years ago in two series that the institution has placed on its website.
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